Elsewhere, however, the impact of the toad on native predators has not been documented. Here we report the first evidence that the cane toad is impacting native predators in other geographic regions. Specifically, we document death due to cane toad poisoning in the endemic and threatened Jamaican...
In the case of the cane toad, the invaded range in Australia contains many predators that are susceptible to the toxin, and willing to attack adult toads (especially at the invasion front19), favouring increased allocation of resources to toxin production. Additionally, cane toads in many parts ...
shift in the proportion of a population having a particular characteristic thatalready existsin that population—in this case, long legs. The genetic information for long-leggedness has not appeared out of nowhere (i.e. evolved) but is part of the variation built into the toad kind at ...
A review of research published in a 2015 issue of "Journal of Applied Ecology" is presented which found cane toad tadpoles suppressed the growth of tadpoles and reduced the embryo survival to under five percent when separated from them with a mesh partition but kept in the same container and ...
The country’s cane toad population now numbers in the millions and covers most of northeastern Australia. The toads are advancing westward by 40–60 km (25–40 miles) per year. In response, the Australian government is taking active measures to humanely reduce their numbers. Other regions ...