The cane toad was introduced into Australia in 1935 to control sugar cane pests in Queensland. One hundred and one cane toads arnved at Edmonton in June in 1935. Breeding occurred almost immediately. The cane toad is tough and adaptable, as well as being poisonous throughout Its life cycle,...
Introduced into Australia in 1935, the cane toad (Chaunus [Bufo] marinus) threatens native vertebrate predators. However, there have been few rigorous quantitative studies on species threatened by this toxic invasive species. This study examines the changes in abundance and proportion of sites ...
In Australia-where theywere also deliberately introduced in the 1930s to protect sugarcane-they are a genuine scourge(灾祸).Theissue is that Australia has no native toad species, so none of the predators(食肉动物) knew how to avoid the toxic toads. As thecane toads advanced east to west ...
Mark Lewis’s amazing and hilarious documentary Cane Toads tells the story of Bufo marinus, which was introduced to Australia in 1935 to control bugs but which quickly became a far greater menace than the beetles they eat. Today they number in the hundreds of millions and are taking over ...
TPO 15The cane toad is a large (1.8 kg) amphibian species native to Central and South America.It was deliberately introduced to Australia in 1935 with the expectation that it would protect farmers’ crops by eating harmful insects.Unfortunately,the toad multiplied rapidly,and a large cane toad ...
Barton DP. Introduced animals and their parasites: the cane toad Bufo marinus, in Australia. Aust J Ecol 1997;22:316±24.Barton DP 1997. Introduced animals and their parasites: the cane toad, Bufo marinus, in Australia. Australian Journal of Ecology 22: 316-324....
The cane toad was introduced to Australia in the hope that it would control two species of beetle (French’s cane beetle and the greyback cane beetle) which were decimating sugar cane crops. (The beetles’ larvae were eating the roots and stunting, if not killing, the plants.) As it tur...
(1)A.标题归纳题.根据文章第一段,Native to America, the cane toad (癞蛤蟆) was introduced to Northern Queensland 70 years ago to control sugarcane beetles (甘蔗害虫). The toads failed in that duty but spread across Queensland and into neighboring northern areas.原产于美国的癞蛤蟆,70年前被引...
The voracious cane toad (Bufo marinus), whose native range spans from northern South America to southern Texas, is a poisonous species with few natural predators. It was introduced into Australia in the 1930s from Hawaii to reduce the effects of beetles on sugarcane plantations. Cane toads are...