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Cane Toads

Cane toads, also known as giant neotropical toads or marine toads, are a species of toad native to Central and South America. These large toads have highly toxic skin and glands, and are voracious eaters and breeders. Because of their toxicity and that they have spread throughout Oceania and the Caribbean, cane toads are now considered an invasive species.

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How did cane frogs get brought to north America?

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Frogs were probably brought to america accidently on Christopher Columbus's ships or another famous explorers ships. No one has proof though for sure.

Where are Cane Toads originally from?

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because they were used to help the sugercane grow by eating the beetles that ate the sugercane

What is the Cane Toad's habitat?

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forest swamps or marshes

What does a cane toad look like?

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Cane toads look like any normal toad! They are called cane toads because...they're toads.
cane toads are toads thaat are brownish and yellowishr

How do get poison out of cane toad meat?

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From what I understand, and amphibian's poison is in it's skin, and not in it's meat.

I have skinned and eaten a cane toad, and I didn't get sick or anything.

I did this because I am interested in wilderness survival, and I wanted to know if cane

toads were edible. Having eaten one with no ill effect, I assume that they are in fact

edible, as long as you skin them.

I also harvested a lot of cane toad venom by squeezing the main poison glands of

many toads, and I smoked quite a lot of it.

It did not have any mind-altering affect on me whatsoever, however, I have since

had unexplained health problems.

Did cane toads do the job?

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How do cane toads effect the a food web?

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Cane toads affect the environment negatively by being an invasive species. This species invades other countries and takes away food sources from other native organisms. The cane toad is also toxic to predators, which would cause a pet to die if they were to eat a cane toad.
They are an invasive species and they make other frogs compete for the food in the environment.

Who introduced the cane toad into Australia?

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The cane toad was introduced into Australia by William Mungomery who was the head of the Australian Bureau of Sugar Experiment Stations in Queensland. In 1935, Mungomery travelled to Hawaii, and came back with 102 toads which were released around Cairns in north Queensland.

What damage did the cane toad do to native species in Australia?

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It causes problems for humans as the poisons from a cane toad can give us intense pain, temporary blindness and inflammation.

And for pets it can affect them as well, signs are;

-profuse salivation -twitching -vomiting -shallow breathing and collapse of the hind legs and the pet may fall into cardiac arrest within 15 minutes.

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Cane toads have become an ecological disaster in Australia, and other places to which they have been introduced. They eat the native wildlife, but have no natural predators. Cane toads eat native frog species, as well as other small birds and mammals, and they compete directly with native frogs and other species for food. Many native frog species are at risk of extinction as a result of the cane toad population.

The only animals that have worked out how to eat them safely are crows, which flip the toads over and eat the soft underbelly, where there are no poison glands. Northern quolls have suffered huge population losses because habitat loss and the resultant drop in food sources has driven them to try to eat the cane toad, which has, of course, poisoned these mammals. Any native animal that normally eats frogs will be poisoned by the cane toad.

Cane toads are also continuing to spread south. They are remarkably adaptable creatures, and seem to be becoming hardier, adapting to a wide variety of habitats and climate conditions. They also breed prolifically, and wherever they populate, they push out the native species.

When were cane toads introduced to Australia and why?

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Ironically they were introduced to destroy a cane-beetle plague. But the beetles are living in cane, where the toads cannot reach them. Also, cane beetles are too small to serve as food, so the toads left the canefields and entered forrests and swamps where they eat anything they can swallow. So recently, they are a pest themselves.

What is the impact of introducing the cane toad to Australia?

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Cane toads have become an ecological disaster in Australia. They eat the native wildlife, but have no natural predators. Cand toads eat native frog species, as well as other small burds and mammals, and they compete directly with native frogs and other species for food. Many native frog species are at risk of extinction as a result of the cane toad population.

The only animals that have worked out how to eat them safely are crows, which flip the toads over and eat the soft underbelly, where there are no poison glands. Northern quolls have suffered huge population losses because habitat loss and the resultant drop in food sources has driven them to try to eat the cane toad, which has, of course, poisoned these mammals. Any native animal that normally eats frogs will be poisoned by the cane toad.

Cane toads are also continuing to spread south. They are remarkably adaptable creatures, and seem to be becoming hardier, adapting to a wide variety of habitats and climate conditions. They also breed prolifically, and wherever they populate, they push out the native species.

Is the cane toad harmful?

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There are a lot of myths surrounding cane toads. * They will not give you warts. This is garbage. * They will not poison water they get in. They may make it dirty. * They will not poison you if you pick them up. However, cane toads are toxic. They secrete a white milky poison called bufotenin from the two enlarged paratoid glands behind their eyes. If you irritate a toad by poking at it or holding it for a long time, the poison will be excreted onto its skin. If you get the poison on your hands and get some of it into your mouth, it will make your mouth tingle and you will feel unwell. Large amounts of it cause vomiting, fainting, coma and death. There is enough poison in a toad to kill a dog or cat and probably a human, but they can't excrete enough of it to kill you. ALWAYS wash your hands with soap after handling toads. If you do that they cannot hurt you.

What are there natural predators of cane toad tadpoles in Australia?

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Researchers in the top end say they may have discovered the first natural predator to the cane toad. According to experiments conducted in captivity, a local frog species, Litoria dahlii, eats infant cane toads as well as the tadpoles without any apparent side effects from the cane toads' poison. Whether the same occurs in the wild is still to be seen, but researchers believe the frog could play a large part in slowing the spread of the cane toad into the Northern Territory of Australia, and into fragile eco systems like Kakadu's National Park.

How long does it take for cane toad tadpoles to become cane toads?

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Cane toads (Bufo marinus) in the wild can live up to ten years. In captivity they can live up to about eight years.

Have cane toads had a good or bad effect to Australia?

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The effects that cane frogs have on the Australia population and ecology is the depletion of native species. Cane frogs are toxic to humans and pets when digested. The cause is that the cane toads are have a mixed of toxins that secret a milky liquid from their parotid glands.

Do cane toads have any bones?

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Yes, all amphibians have bones.

What to do if your dog licks a cane toad?

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If your dog licks a cane toad he/she will deliver major amounts of froth and suliver from the mouth and usually will start twitching his/her face, sometimes even turn its head to either side and freeze looking straight ahead (when my dog did that I thought he had died, that's how frozen they are.) This procedure usually lasts between 1/2 and hour to a full hour depending on how much your pooch has licked or bitten the toad it can even be fatal.

I hope I helped :)

What are the best words that describe a cane toad?

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Well, this is a hard question but there are quiet a few adjectives that could describe a cane toad (if you ever research about them). Clumsy, large, fierce.

Where in Australia were the first cane toads released?

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Cairns, Gordonvale, and Innisfail in Northern Queensland.

What are the cane toad's enemies?

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the Green Tree Frog