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Group finds toad the size of a small dog

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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I love it that it was found in Darwin, hahaha!!!

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Thanks Frank!!!    Cane toads are very very nasty critters. And with no natural predators have bred mightily in Queensland and spread. I've only ever seen a petrified one, literally turned to stone, in a medical research labs. The researcher gave it to me. I kept it only for a short time, ended up burning it. It still exuded evil.




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AussiePam wrote: It still exuded evil.
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No really, Britt. I had it in the car with me and I'm not into auras and new age wooofle... but hey, that critter was sending out vibes. When the scientist said I could have the cane toad, I think she may have just wanted to get rid of it herself. Grin.
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Meet Alice and Bob, leaders of the Australian Cane Toad Resistance.



"We been feedin' the kids killer white shark meat," boasts Alice, "and I give them radiated Vegemite on their toast to make 'em grow big."



The secret is out!



Who needs Viagra?  We need radiated Vegemite!




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I expect any vegemite will do it. Do we have a thread here yet in praise of the potent black brew?

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