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Discussion in 'Wildlife & Nature Conservation' started by vogelcommando, 13 Jun 2016.

  1. vogelcommando

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    Hix Wildlife Enthusiast and Lover of Islands 15+ year member Premium Member

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    I can certainly see that helping, and will prevent recruitment, but alone it won't eradicate the toad. But it's certainly a good start.

    :p

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    vogelcommando Well-Known Member 10+ year member

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    I had also my thought about the article, that why I put the 3 question-marks !

    And thank you for the link to the article about the Asiatic sand sedge ( of which I had heared never before ) !
     
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    I wonder how long it will take to impact on adult numbers with this traping of the tadpoles, without pretitors the adults could possibly live longer than normal native species.

    I remember visiting a wildlife park in Karunda in 2001 and the pool with crocs in it had streams of tadpoles which I was told were Marine toad tadpoles, they also said no attempt was made to catch them up and in a man made enclosure this would have been quite easy to do.
     
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    I also read somewhere that conservationists were 'teaching' quolls to eat the frogs.
     
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    And how would they do that without being poisoned?
     
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    I suspect they intended to say "not eat the frogs" - if memory serves they have been feeding captive quolls with small quantities of toad flesh, along with meat tained by toad poison, sufficent to make the quolls ill without killing them. Over time the quolls develop an aversion to the scent of cane toad and will actively avoid eating the affected meat, let alone the flesh of the toads themselves, after which point they are re-released.
     
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    I'm surprised that the local corvids haven't realised that if they kill the toad with a stab to the head and flip it over they can eat the inards. Ours in the UK have worked this ou,t maybe over a millenia though. Also studies have shown there is actually a three week gap from leaving the water to becoming toadlets when the poison isn't effective, or so I was told.
     
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    Yes, sorry. I meant conservationists were training quolls not to eat them by giving them cane toad sausages.
     
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