A parasite that cane toads brought with them from the Amazon has been found to kill almost a third of the pests' babies, but leave Australian species unharmed.
Research has found a 75 per cent drop in freshwater crocodile numbers in an area recently invaded by cane toads, proving the pests' destructive effect on Australian predators.
Researchers have found strategies that could reduce cane toad populations, such as releasing a fear pheromone or attacking bacteria that helps the toad.
Cane toads weren't allowed to compete in the Olympics, but scientists have raced cane toads in the laboratory and calculated that they would not be able to invade Melbourne, Adelaide or Hobart and are ...
Researchers have found that cane toads won't be able to invade Australia's southern cities and are unlikely to thrive in Perth or Sydney, even with climate change.
Researchers have found that cane toads won't be able to invade Australia's southern cities and are unlikely to thrive in Perth or Sydney, even with climate change.
A study of Northern Territory waterways has found that the
population of crocodiles more than halved in some areas, probably due
to crocodiles eating toxic cane toads.
... - It seems a bad back might be the only thing that can stop the relentless spread of Australia's poisonous cane toads, which are killing native animals as they hop across the nation, researchers say.
... slower due to their shorter shin bones. Native frogs were also more vigilant for meat ants than cane toads, they discovered.
The results are interesting not only because they reveal the cane toad's ...
A cane toad from Suriname is helping Northern Arizona University researcher Kiisa Nishikawa understand the ... than motors. Credit: Photo by Danielle Borth A toad sits at a pond's edge eyeing a cricket on ...
Professor Rick Shine writes on new developments in the fight against cane toads.
Professor Rick Shine writes on new developments in the fight against cane toads.
Australian scientists are serving up mashed cane toad with a dash of poison to put predators off eating the toxic aliens.
Deliberately introduced to hunt beetles, invasive cane toad populations have exploded in Australia. Now scientists propose attacking the alien species with ants that feast on cane toad flesh.Video.
For Australia's cane toads it appears that survival of the fittest is proving to be a double edged sword. Carmelo Amalfi reports.
