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Cane toads tolerate a broad range of environmental and climatic conditions and appear to be able to adjust and survive in almost any environment system, including sea water for short penods of time. This to a large extent explains their success in their spreading in Australia. Cane toads are ...
In states where toads occur, and states toads will reach soon (i.e., Western Australia), there is significant public concern about toads and their impacts on natural ecosystem values, native wildlife and domestic pests.Department of the EnvironmentDepartment of the Environment...
body sizes, sexes, behaviour, hydration state and feeding rates of toads around buildings compared to those in areas remote from buildings, and conducted experimental trials to assess the effects of building-related variables (lights and increased toad densities) on the foraging success of toads. T...
There was no significant interaction between the effects of tibia length and snout-vent length on the occurrence of spinal arthritis (Z = −0.637, P = 0.524; Fig. 3). Figure 3 The relationship of leg length to body size was not significantly different in toads with and without ...
directions and take long steps than toads that arrived a few years later. These toads tended to take short steps and frequently make sharp-angled turns. Because of thesebehavioral differences, toads at the forefront of an invasion covered almost twice as much ground as later-arriving toads. ...
Relative to body length, toads from the native range had smaller parotoids than did conspecifics from any of the invasive populations except those on the dry side of the large island of Hawai’i (Fig.2a). Parotoids were much larger in other sites within Hawai’i (especially in samples fr...
Effects of an invasive anuran [the cane toad (Bufo marinus)] on the invertebrate fauna of a tropical Australian floodplain The ways in which invasive organisms influence native ecosystems remain poorly understood. For example, feral cane toads Bufo marinus have spread extensive... MJ Greenlees,GP ...
(bufalin).Hence, cane toads respond to perceived predation risk in the aquatic environment by metamorphosing at a smaller size and modifying their investment in defensive toxins during post-metamorphic life.Phenotypically flexible responses to larval conditions vary among amphibian taxa, and can involve...
creatures that can live in urban areas as well as in undisturbed nature. Cane toads absorb water through their skin and require some form of moisture in theirenvironmentto survive, which allows them to live in habitats such asdunes, coastalgrasslands, and the edges ofmangroveswampsandrainforests....