Sausages made from minced toad legs have proven to be a successful way to avert quolls from eating toxic cane toads. “Our captive trials clearly indicate that training a quoll using a ...

non-native cane toads-- with cane toad sausages. Yum. SEE ALSO: Toad stacking? It's an Australian thing, don't question it. The approach is known as "taste aversion conservation" and aims to teach ...

Residents in Western Australia's north have been asked to collect as many cane toads as they can to be minced for a mass "toad sausage" delivery in the Kimberley. It is part of a wide-scale roll ...

Previous tests showed that getting sick once will convince quolls to keep cane toad off the menu. Here’s where the sausages come in. Later this month, ecologists from the Australia Wildlife ...

(Australian authorities are now trying to train wild quolls not to bite the toads, including one method involving cane toad sausage spiked with a mild nausea-inducing agent. The sausage is dropped ...

that animal won’t go for a cane toad because it’s already tried a sausage and felt sick,” said Sara McAllister, an invasive species project officer from the Western Australia Department of ...

Scientists have tried for some time to naturally deter animals such as quolls from consuming the toads with methods including toad sausages. Quolls that had been exposed to cane toad in the form of a ...

Sydney - Australia's native animals are being fed nauseating sausages of cane toad meat in a bid to train them against eating the foul, toxic species as it spreads into new areas, researchers said ...

Australia's native animals are being fed nauseating sausages of cane toad meat in a bid to train them against eating the foul, toxic species as it spreads into new areas, researchers said on Tuesday.