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DARWIN, Australia - An environmental group said Tuesday it had captured a "monster" toad the size of a small dog. With a body the size of a football and weighing nearly 2 pounds, the toad is among the largest specimens ever captured in Australia, according to Frogwatch coordinator Graeme Sawyer.
"It's huge, to put it mildly," he said. "The biggest toads are usually females but this one was a rampant male ... I would hate to meet his big sister."
Frogwatch, which is dedicated to wiping out a toxic toad species that has killed countless Australian animals, picked up the 15-inch-long cane toad during a raid on a pond outside the northern city of Darwin late Monday.
Cane toads were imported from South America during the 1930s in a failed attempt to control beetles on Australia's northern sugar cane plantations. The poisonous toads have proven fatal to Australia's delicate ecosystems, killing millions of native animals from snakes to the small crocodiles that eat them.
As part of its so-called "Toad Buster" project, Frogwatch conducts regular raids on local water holes, blinding the toads with bright lights then scooping them up by the dozen.
"We kill them with carbon dioxide gas, stockpile them in a big freezer and then put them through a liquid fertilizer process" that renders the toads nontoxic, Sawyer said.
"It turns out to be sensational fertilizer," he added. |
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wow now that is one giant toad. can you imaging comming across something that big? I wonder if it geneticaly enhanced.that reminds me....it's the mother-in-law's birthday soon.
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that reminds me....it's the mother-in-law's birthday soon.
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lol man oh man good thing she dosn't use frihost lol | glenn83e wrote: |
| I wonder if it geneticaly enhanced. |
No, it was wild and it's ancestors were probably released into the wild long before genetic modifiaction was possible.Perhaps the work of man? The toad could have consumed something that was released as toxic from a factory maybe. =) Or perhaps Toads are gonna transform to some ultimate form and eventually wipe-out humankind. =\
I didn't know toads could affect the ecosystem... Thanks for the insights. =)
whoa... that's a mighty big toad for sure. big and poisonous. They look like succulent meals for the local ecosystem but unfortunately are lethal when consumed. Good thing their skin are non toxic.
| wellerchap wrote: |
that reminds me....it's the mother-in-law's birthday soon.
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HAH!: Almost busted a gut when I read this. That sucker is a beaut though hey? 
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Perhaps the work of man? The toad could have consumed something that was released as toxic from a factory maybe. =) Or perhaps Toads are gonna transform to some ultimate form and eventually wipe-out humankind. =\
I didn't know toads could affect the ecosystem... Thanks for the insights. =) |
Man didn't have to be involved in this. When an species has no natural enemies within an eco-system, it has a monopoly over all the food sources. Over several generations a species can so become considerably bigger.so they're lethal huh? that's too bad, cuz if not, they wouldve been able to feed a lot of people 
That "monster" toad the size of a small dog is amazing! | TheMatrixHasYou wrote: |
| That "monster" toad the size of a small dog is amazing! |
Not really amazing!
Interesting tho....They've got frogs that big and bigger in Puerto Rico. They call them mountain chickens, and they are non-toxic and edible. I saw it on Reading Rainbow years ago. I have trouble remembering to return library books on time, but I remembered that - it's amazing the things that will stick in your brain.
growing animals with chamicals make them non-consumeable,what happens if someone cooks them??
lol tats funyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy
thanx buddy
Wow, I was going to say, where does it live? Anywhere near a nuclear waste repository lol!
Maybe it has cancer or something...
The Latest High: Psychoactive Toad Licking
Licking toads will not give you warts or produce a fairy prince, but it might get you high. It isn't exactly an epidemic, but the Drug Enforcement Administration says toad licking is the latest way to hallucinate. "It sounds like a fairy tale gone wrong, doesn't it?" said Robert K. Sager, chief of the DEA's laboratory in San Francisco. "Now, I don't think this is going to be a great problem because people don't go around licking toads as a habit." The culprit: the Cane toad. "They're beautiful toads," Sager Said. "People like them." The Cane toad, which can grow to the size of a dinner plate, produces a toxin called bufotenine, which the toad secretes to ward off predators. When licked raw. or cooked, the toxin acts as a hallucinogen. In the Southwest recently, several dogs have died after eating Cane toads, and the DEA has had bufotenine turn up at its research labs from time to time after drug arrests. In Washoe County, the prospect of gonzo toad lickers in our midst produced a few chuckles in the offices of the county's Consolidated Narcotics Unit.
http://www.totse.com/en/drugs/rare_and_exotic_drugs/toadlick.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychoactive_toad | wellerchap wrote: |
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lmfao oh wow. that...nearly killed me. i laughed so hard and suddenly and choked on the pretzel i was eating lmao
