The proportion of spinal arthritis in toad sampling locations was greater in northern latitudes and was not affected by year of population establishment. Generated with R Studio 1.0.143 (https://www.R-project.org/) using package ‘mapplots’ and ‘marmap’. Full size image Statistical Analysis...
How fast are cane toads moving through Australia? One of the benefits of studying cane toads is that the general public really care about them, and so people watch out for the advancing toad invasion front. As a result, we have really detailed information – from postal surveys and so forth...
They develop into toadlets in between 17 days to 6 months depending on temperature. Cane toads need between 6 and 18 months to reach sexual maturity and have a lifespan of about 5 years. RangeCane toads were deliberately introduced to Australia from Hawaii in 1935 in an attempt to stop ...
The XToadGmp toad-recognition CNN we developed was trained end-to-end using heat-map Gaussian targets. After training, XToadGmp required minimum image pre/post-processing and when tested on 720脳1280 shaped images, it achieved 97.1% classification accuracy on 1863 toad and 2892 not-toad test ...
If invasive species use chemical weapons to suppress the viability of conspecifics, we may be able to exploit those species-specific chemical cues for selective control of the invader. Cane toads (Rhinella marina) are spreading through tropical Australia, with negative effects on native species. The...
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Australia's Bureau of Sugar Experiment Stations brought canetoadsfrom America to Australia in 1935, in order to control beetles that were infesting sugar cane. Since then, cane toad populations have spread widely, and the toads, which secrete a toxin, disrupt the native ecology. In order to pr...