Child T, Phillips BL, Brown GP, Shine R (2008a) The spatial ecology of cane toads ( Bufo marinus ) in tropical Australia: Why do metamorph toads stay near the water? Austral Ecol 33 : 630–640Child, T., Phillips
The world's largest toad, the cane toad is native to the jungles of Central and South America. It is notorious for taking huge prey, such as rats, that it gulps down in one single bite.Answer and Explanation: Cane toads thrive in Australia because they have no natural predators, meaning...
Cane Toads:Cane Toads Rhinella marina were introduced to Australia in the 1930s in the hope that they would control the destructive cane beetle population that wreaked havoc on the sugar cane plantations in northeastern Queensland.Answer and Explanation: ...
Invasive cane toads (Rhinella marina) in Australia contain several types of parasites, raising concern that the toads may increase rates of parasitism in local anuran species. We sampled cane toads and sympatric native frogs (Limnodynastes peronii, Litoria latopalmata, and Litoria nasuta) at the...
Like many invasive species, cane toads (Rhinella marina) in Australia concentrate in the disturbed habitats created by human activity, rather than in pristine areas. We surveyed cane toads in the wet-dry tropics of the Northern Territory to assess the abundances, body sizes, sexes, behaviour, hy...
2022) as for example demonstrated for cane toads at the edge of the invasive range in Australia (Phillips et al. 2006; Hudson et al. 2020). Yet, these results stand in contrast to those from a previous study on the same species that suggested that more open habitats like agricultural ...
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[3–8].We studied cane toads (Rhinella When assessed after 5 days, exposure did not affect marina), bufonid anurans whose spread through survival rate (t8¼0.79, p¼0.45), but reduced the Australia has killed many native predators [9–11].High treatment tadpoles’body length (24%...
astudypublished in the Journal of Experimental Analysis of Behavior suggested that hooded crows may possess significant numerical abilities (based on matching and oddity tasks). In Queensland, Australia, Crows have apparently developed a strategy to feed on toxic cane toads that are lethal to many ...
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