Cane toads were introduced into Australia in 1935 to control the pest problem's in the sugar cane crop. But what seemed like ...

The toads, which secrete venom that can kill animals that eat ... prompting the environmental non-profit Watergum to organize the Great Cane Toad Bust, an annual campaign to kill as many toads ...

The venom contains tetrodotoxin ... Handling the bird can cause numbness and tingling, and ingestion can be fatal. The cane toad, native to Central and South America, is well known for its ...

“A cane toad that size will eat anything it can fit ... The toads are poisonous, exuding venom from glands on their shoulders when provoked, so as cane toads multiplied in Australia’s wild ...

Rhonda Holland watched in astonishment as a cane toad on her Seminole Heights porch consumed an entire chicken bone in one gulp. “It freaked me out that he ate the whole thing like that ...

"A cane toad that size will eat anything it can fit ... These toads are poisonous, exuding venom from glands on their shoulders when provoked, so as cane toads multiplied in Australia's wild ...

The toads' venom must be manually extracted by human hands that the toad perceives of as a threat, enough to emit the venom — an invasive process reminiscent of the extraction of snake venom for ...

First introduced to Australia in the 1930s, cane toads have no natural predators in the country and have wrought havoc on native animal populations. The toad's skin contains venom which it ...

"I really knew she was in trouble." Cane toads, also known as bufo or marine toads, are not native to Florida. Their venom, which is secreted when the toad feels threatened, can be especially ...

JCU Head of Zoology and Ecology Professor Lin Schwarzkopf says even a small amount of cane toad venom can be deadly to native fauna in Australia. “It’s less expensive for the toad to produce ...

But leave it to Mr. Tyson to generate his own publicity. Mr. Tyson told Ms. Perez that he first smoked toad venom — which, according to herpetologists, is a poison, not a venom — about seven ...