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Australia’s best known pest. AAP Image/Dave Hunt

The toad we love to hate

For some unfathomable reason, cane toads stir the popular imagination. Most invasive species are simply not noticed by most of us, or, if they are, they are quickly assimilated into our mental landscape…
Closing about 100 man-made bodies of water could stop cane toads from spreading further into Australia’s north west, the study found. http://www.flickr.com/photos/blundershot

Close 100 man-made lakes to stop cane toad spread: study

Shutting down around 100 man-made water storage structures in Australia’s north west could stop the spread of cane toads into Western Australia’s Pilbara region, a new study has found. Cane toads, which…
The rapacious invader has defied all efforts to stop its spread across tropical Australia. Flickr/blundershot

Great invader’s poison could also be its downfall

The cane toad’s highly toxic poison could ultimately prove the most effective weapon against the invasive species itself, according to a team of researchers who say the poison is an effective bait for…
toad. Flickr/rob's lensonlife

Could tadpole weaponry be used against cane toads?

A chemical produced naturally by cane toad tadpoles may one day be used to help control the invasive species, according to new research published today. Cane toads are native to South America but have…
Hated enemy or part of the landscape? Radio Pictures

Cane toad movie says put aside prejudice - in 3D

Every night under cover of darkness an advancing wall of toads heads west. Rather than winding through the bush, the toads march straight down the highway, ignoring the official border signs. Meanwhile…
Do cane toads add something new to ‘natural selection’? manda/Flickr

Cane and able – how superfit toads got the hop on evolution

Some 150 years ago, Charles Darwin proposed a mechanism for evolutionary change; but is there something beyond natural selection driving evolution? My colleagues and I think so, and we believe it has come…

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