Endangered quolls taught to turn their noses up at toxic toad
Tuesday, April 13, 2010 - 09:35
in Biology & Nature
Ecologists in Australia have successfully trained a critically endangered marsupial - the northern quoll - to turn its nose up at toxic cane toads. Their results, including fascinating behavioural video footage, are published today in the British Ecological Society's Journal of Applied Ecology and could provide conservationists with a vital new weapon in the fight against invasive species.