In certain regions of Australia, cane toads are everywhere. In fact, there are so many giant cane toads littering fields and roads that locals play a game to see how many they can hit with their car. The unattractive, bulbous creatures are not native to Australia and are considered an invading menace by the population.
Cane toads were originally brought into the country from Hawaii in the 1930s in the hope that they would eat and eradicate the cane beetle, a pest which at the time was devastating the sugar cane harvest. That didn't work. Instead, the original 3,000 cane toads proceeded to lay oodles of tadpoles, multiply like wildfire, and cover the region like a plague. Today, cane toads blanket several states of Australia and continue to expand at an alarming rate.
To learn more about cane toads, their sworn enemies, and the strange few who love them, check out the highly entertaining film Cane Toads: An Unnatural History or the recent sequel Cane Toads: The Conquest.
Cane toads were originally brought into the country from Hawaii in the 1930s in the hope that they would eat and eradicate the cane beetle, a pest which at the time was devastating the sugar cane harvest. That didn't work. Instead, the original 3,000 cane toads proceeded to lay oodles of tadpoles, multiply like wildfire, and cover the region like a plague. Today, cane toads blanket several states of Australia and continue to expand at an alarming rate.
To learn more about cane toads, their sworn enemies, and the strange few who love them, check out the highly entertaining film Cane Toads: An Unnatural History or the recent sequel Cane Toads: The Conquest.
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