Current Population Trend: Increasing The cane toad is a large, warty, poisonous amphibian native to South and Central America and considered to be one of the worst invasive species in the world. They were introduced in many countries with the hope that they would help control agricultural pests...
More recently, the cane toad has devastated populations of amphibian-eating predators in Australia, through the ingestion of this highly toxic anuran. 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 ...
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...
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 ...
The cane toad ( Bufo marinus ) was introduced in 1935 in Australia, where it spread rapidly. We have tested for isolation by distance by analysing at a local geographical scale a continuous population using seven microsatellite markers and an individual-based method. The matrix of pairwise ...
“Who’s got some more?” asks King, a local leader of this year’s Great Cane Toad Bust, a small and ultimately futile campaign to dent Australia’s massive invasive population of some 200 million cane toads. Native to South and Central America, the brown, warty-skinned pest has been ...
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 ...