Stinky sausages made of cane toad flesh have been scattered from helicopters in a wide-scale trial that researchers hope will give native animals a fighting chance. The sausages were air-dropped ...

Ninety years ago, cane toads were introduced to Australia to fix a beetle problem - but it quickly turned into one of the ...

Quolls became locally extinct in Kakadu National Park when cane toads invaded Scientists in Australia have designed a cane toad "sausage" that could help protect vulnerable predators from the ...

The cane toad sausages are not being made for human consumption, rather they are part of a taste aversion program to try to prevent native species from being killed by the pest. As part of the ...

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 ...

To combat this, researchers are testing innovative solutions, such as "cane toad sausages," to train native mammals and ...

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 ...

These large lizards actively pursue live prey (the team originally tried cane toad sausages, but the aversion didn’t stick). So the team utilized young, nonlethal “trainer toads.” ...