In addition to Australia, cane toads have spread in Florida, Hawaii, Guam, the Philippines, the Caribbean islands, the western Pacific islands, Papua New Guinea, and elsewhere. The poisonous toads kill both pets and native species when animals bite, lick, or eat them, and they outcompete na...
The marine toad Bufo marinus is native to northern South America, parts of Central America and Southern Texas. It was deliberately introduced into Australia's tropical north‐east in 1935 in an unsuccessful attempt to control the cane beetle, a damaging insect pest of sugarcane crops. The toads...
根据下文Experts estimate that there are currently over 200 million samples spread across Northern Australia, and the numbers are only growing.(专家估计,目前澳大利亚北部有2亿多只海蟾蜍,而且这个数字还在不断增长)可知,C项 "由于天敌很少,它们的数量开始迅速增长" 符合此处语境。故C选项正确。2.考查上下文...
For the full story about the cane toad invasion of Australia, and what we can do about it, read Rick’s book“Cane Toad Wars”(published by University of California Press, 2018). The book is written for the general public, not for scientists, and is aimed at a wide audience. The book...
In tropical Australia, the cane toad invasion has moved with increasing speed, and currently averages around 50–60 km per year (Phillips et al., 2006). The resulting low transmission probability for parasites in frontal populations has resulted in invasion-front populations of toads lacking the ...
Australian Cane Toad essaysThe cane toad, Bufo marinus, or giant toad, was introduced to Australia by the sugar cane industry with government sanction, in order to control two specific pests of sugar cane. The grey backed cane beetle and the frenchie bee
Learning to Live with the Cane Toad IT'S easy to judge the cane toad for all the destruction it has caused since being introduced into Australia in 1935.Originally brought in to control the g... - Learning to Live with the Cane Toad 被引量: 0发表: 0年...
A group of scientists from UNSW Sydney, the University of Sydney, Deakin University, Portugal and Brazil have unlocked the DNA of the cane toad, a poisonous amphibian that is a threat to many native Australian species. The findings were published in acad
"Just using the legs, you can imagine how much toad we can't put in the mincer," Everitt said. Original image has been replaced.Credit: Mashable Cane toads wereintroducedinto Australia in '30s by Queensland sugar cane farmers to control insect problems, but it didn't work out quite like...
Methods We collected 1622 individual toads from the campus of James Cook University in Townsville, Queensland, Australia (-19.3329°S 146.7575oE) over five years (Supplementary Table S1) and an additional 727 toads from locations in the Northern Territory, Western and Southern Queensland and New ...