Large multi-year study shows that juvenile "taster toads" taught goannas to avoid eating poisonous cane toads, preventing population collapse A landmark study published in the journal Conservation ...

Poisonous toads are killing freshwater crocodiles in Australia, but taste-aversion training might help to save the reptiles’ lives 1. In the Australian tropics, many populations of freshwater ...

Native meat ants and cat food can help control the spread of cane toads, scientists have found. University of Sydney biology professor Rick Shine and his colleagues, Georgia Ward-Fear and Greg Brown, ...

In 1978, cane toads, which are native to South and Central America, were introduced for pest control to Ishigaki island in Okinawa prefecture in Japan. These poisonous toads secrete deadly toxins, ...

Source: Richard Fisher, via Wikimedia Commons. To protect freshwater crocodiles from deadly invasive cane toads, scientists at Macquarie University collaborated with Bunuba Indigenous rangers and the ...

On the edge of a dark, suburban park in Brisbane, teams of volunteer toad-catchers gather around Gary King as he shoves another squirming specimen into a cooler box. “Who’s got some more?” asks King, ...

Thousands of invasive toads are about to be killed by Australian locals as the annual Great Cane Toad Bust kicks off, with experts urging participants to euthanize the amphibians humanely using the ...

Conservationists are calling on the public to help in the effort to combat one of the country's nastiest invasive species, responsible for massive destruction of ecosystems and native wildlife. As ...

In the wild rainforest of Australia’s north, park rangers have stumbled upon a predator so large they felt they had no choice but to dub it Toadzilla. The giant cane toad was discovered Jan. 12 by ...

Foreword / by Harry W. Greene -- Preface -- 1. An ecological catastrophe -- 2. How the cane toad came to Australia -- 3. Arrival of cane toads at Fogg Dam -- 4. How cane toads have adapted and ...