This event is a fantastic opportunity to rally with other likeminded community members and get rid of some toads. The two ways to humanely kill a cane toad is either by cooling followed byįreezing or (for those who don’t want to touch the warty creatures) the aerosolĮarly next month Greening Australia will be running a toad catching event in Rockhampton. Hand by humanely removing the cane toads who also live there. Give the native animals living in your local environment a helping Of cane toads are caught and killed each year, but there are still plenty more However, other than these few natural enemies, (including the bush stone-curlew) have worked out some cunning tactics to eatĪround the toad’s poison glands. A few rat species along with some clever native birds Snakes and wolf spiders are the only animals who are immune to the ingested effects So many ways to kill native animals or outcompete them for space, toads pose a Tadpoles can eat cane toad eggs (with their five rows of tiny peg-like teeth)! With Mammals, small birds and even their young! Interesting, large cane toad The bigger they are, the more they can prey on. The diet of cane toads, they eat anything they can fit in their mouth – meaning Water predators from eating them and drastically increasing their chances of If eaten, the venom from oneĬane toad can kill or paralyse animals such as goannas, quolls and blueĮggs and tadpoles leech the same poison into the water where they live, stopping Put tadpoles in clean or new buckets or large plastic freezer bags as you would do for transporting aquarium fish from the pet shop. However, it’s not the same story for our wildlife.Īre venomous at all stages of their life-cycle. To humans’, toadsĪre relatively harmless and no one has ever died from a cane toad in Australia. Secrete through two large glands located behind their ears. Toads store a cocktail of highly-toxic poison in their warty skin, which they Knowledge that toads are poisonous, however, how much so usually goes unsaid. (FBA) warn it’s a whole lot worse for our local environment and native wildlife. While the look of these hopping horrors is scream provoking, Fitzroy Basin Association Inc. It’s that time of the year where no one wants to take out the rubbish in fear of encountering a cane toad.

Tad poles in a freezer