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The Cane Toad has poison glands, and the tadpoles are highly toxic to most animals if ingested.

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Q: How do cane toads protect themselves when threatened?
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What crops were the cane toads supposed to protect?

Sugar cane, they were supposed to eat cane beetles, thus the cane in cane toad.


What was to control cane beetles in 1935?

cane toads


Do cane toads have gills?

cane toads have lungs


What crop was the cane toad supposed to protect?

Cane toads were actually supposed to protect the sugar canes. but instead, they didn`t. They had to protect the sugar cane because of the can beetles, which lived underneath the crop, and blocked all the water out, which caused it to go all yellow, and then collasped. The suger cane i mean. Branidi out.


Who brought cane toads?

Cane toads were brought to Australia by British settlers.


Did the introduction of cane toads solve the original problem?

Yes their introduction had a purpose. But the toads did not serve it... They were introduced in Australia to eat small beetles. These beatles were a pest to the sugar cane. But the toads are ground dwellers while the beatles live high up the plants. So eventually the toads never got to the beatles and searched for food in the surrounding forests and swamps. There they started to reproduce and scince there are no natural enemies the toads are now considered a pest themselves.


Why do cane toads have warts?

no they may have bumpy skin but they do not have warts they have bumpy skin to protect them from dry periods


When the cane toad was introduced to Brisbane what crop was it supposed to protect?

The cane toad was brought into Australia to protect sugar cane crops from the cane beetle. It was not introduced to the city of Brisbane: it was introduced to the state of Queensland. Regardless, the experiment was a huge failure, and cane toads have become an environmental disaster.


What country has the most cane toads?

cane toads are most popular in south America


Do cane toads eat blue banded bee?

No. Cane toads do not pose a threat to blue banded bees.


Do cane toads eat spiders?

Cane toads do eat spiders. They mostly eat insects. They will eat whatever they can fit I their mouths like snails, small frogs, and other cane toads.


Why didn't cane toads take over Hawaii?

cane toads eat all native species like insects and snake eat cane toads but then the snake will die from the poison inside the cane toad and might lead into exiction