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    2022 cane toads had been sighted as far south as Bankstown, southwest of Sydney. In 2023 cane toads were found in Dural, northwest of Sydney. The toads on...
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    Cane Toads: An Unnatural History documented the trials and tribulations of the introduction of cane toads in Australia. Historically, the cane toad was...
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  • Cane Toads: The Conquest, a 2010 documentary film by Mark Lewis, tracks the inexorable decades long march of the invasive cane toad across Australia, a...
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  • Cane Toads: An Unnatural History is a 1988 documentary film about the introduction of cane toads to Australia. Cane toads were introduced to Australia...
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  • Cane toads may refer to: Cane toad Cane toads in Australia Cane Toads: An Unnatural History 1988 documentary film Cane Toads: The Conquest 2010 documentary...
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    While introduced cane toads did eat cane beetles, the toads preferred other insects, and R. marina itself became a major pest. The toad population rose...
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  • Native to both South and Central America, Cane toads were introduced to Australia in the 1930s and have since become an invasive species and a threat to...
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    parasites and pathogens and its toxicity". Like cane toads, the Asian common toad secretes toxins from glands in their backs to deter predators. These toxins...
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  • succeeds, and cane toads everywhere (or almost everywhere) are safe again. This book was followed by four other books: Toad Away, Toad Heaven, Toad Surprise...
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  • of the invasive cane toad. The toads are caught live and unharmed. The day was originally advocated by politician Shane Knuth. Toads are captured and...
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    in place for invasive species such as wild-living domestic dogs (including the dingo) and fox. A beer-for-toads bounty has been publicised for cane toad...
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  • Mark Lewis (filmmaker) (category All Wikipedia articles written in Australian English)
    (1988) Cane Toads: An Unnatural History Mark Lewis. Screen Australia. Poole, Mark. (February 2008). Mark Lewis: Cane Toads. (Victoria, Australia). Maddox...
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  • in Australia became an ecological catastrophe, as the cane-dwelling Australian beetles were inaccessible to the ground-dwelling toads, and the toads ate...
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    Common death adder (category Reptiles of Western Australia)
    facing increased threat from the ongoing Australian cane toad invasion. The common death adder was first described in 1802. The common death adder feeds on...
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    The Cane Toad Times was a satirical humour magazine based in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. It was first published in the late 1970s, then revived under...
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  • Look up cane, canes, or caning in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Cane or caning may refer to: Walking stick, or walking cane, a device used primarily...
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    Red-bellied black snake (category All Wikipedia articles written in Australian English)
    susceptible to cane toad (Rhinella marina) toxins. The introduction of cane toads in Australia dates to 1935, when they were introduced in an attempt at...
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  • examples of invasive species include: cane toads in Australia, kudzu in the Southeast United States, or beavers in Tierra Del Fuego. But ecological release...
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  • Bullfrog (section Australia)
    Helmeted water toad (Calyptocephalella gayi), endemic to Chile American bullfrog (Lithobates catesbeianus), indigenous to North America Cane toad (Rhinella...
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  • Island Deployment, including marmots, cane toads in Australia and zebras in Kenya. There are many applications in monitoring environmental parameters,...
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    A true toad is any member of the family Bufonidae, in the order Anura (frogs and toads). This is the only family of anurans in which all members are known...
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    Northern quoll (category All Wikipedia articles written in Australian English)
    still persist in Queensland where cane toads have been present for decades. These persisting Queensland quoll populations are naturally toad averse (as observed...
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    Mitchell's water monitor (category Monitor lizards of Australia)
    overpopulation of cane toads, which presents a problem for monitor lizards that mistake the poisonous amphibians for endemic toads native to Australia that make...
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  • (1855-1925) Sydney Punch (1864-1888) The Cane Toad Times Australian Aborigines Advocate (1901–1908) Black Australian News (1972) Black News Service (1975–1977)...
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  • Dettol antiseptic liquid (category Products introduced in 1933)
    contact with it. In Australia, Dettol in a spray bottle has been used to combat cane toads, as spraying the disinfectant kills the toads quickly. Owing...
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    Genetically modified organism (category All Wikipedia articles written in American English)
    chemicals. There are proposals to use genetic engineering to control cane toads in Australia. The nematode Caenorhabditis elegans is one of the major model...
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    species sympatric with toads for millions of years, the species failed to control pests in cane. Despite this failure, the toad significantly reduced the...
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    Rhinella, commonly known as South American toads, beaked toads or Rio Viejo toads, is a genus of true toads native to Neotropical parts of Mexico, Central...
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    chemicals. There are proposals to use genetic engineering to control cane toads in Australia. Many lines of transgenic X. laevis are used to study immunology...
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