Talk:Cane toads in Australia

Now in Western Australia

 * (moved from Talk:Cane toad. -- Alan Liefting (talk) - 08:52, 1 May 2009 (UTC)

News just came out that the toad crossed into the Kimberley region of Western Australia (as of early 2009). See http://www.news.com.au/perthnow/story/0,27574,25125702-2761,00.html Not too sure how to phrase that and update the current version, but I figure it would be worth adding since the current text and graphic don't give much info post-1980. Scyrma (talk) 10:22, 2 March 2009 (UTC)

out of date
Range map ends in 1980 and seems Cane toad has reached western Australia(?) Regards, SunCreator (talk) 22:11, 2 November 2011 (UTC)


 * User:Froggydarb, the editor who created the initial file, has not edited since 2006. We might have to get another editor to update the file. -- Alan Liefting (talk) - 22:21, 2 November 2011 (UTC)


 * Maybe someone can work out how to use these maps: http://www.environment.gov.au/biodiversity/invasive/publications/cane-toad/factsheet.html and http://www.environment.gov.au/soe/2006/publications/report/biodiversity-2.html Because they are from the government, I assume there are no copyright issues, but I don't know about Australian laws.--79.194.230.218 (talk) 20:59, 2 July 2013 (UTC)

Introduction Issues
The introduction to this article is more befitting a page on the Cane Toad itself, rather than the actual subject (Cane toads in Australia). While It's definitely good information and should be kept, I think it'd be better suited in a subsection of the article about the species. For the introduction, the presence of Cane toads specifically in Australia needs to be mentioned (currently the word 'Australia' does not even appear in the intro's body) in a way that summarizes the rest of the article. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Kernsters (talk • contribs) 19:04, 3 September 2012 (UTC)

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Meat ants
Shouldn't we mention that meat ants are being regarded as a cane toad population control measure as well ? See http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2009/03/30/finally-a-predator-to-control-the-notorious-cane-toad-meat-ants/#.WHez9NThBkg and http://sydney.edu.au/science/biology/shine/canetoad_research/scientific-publications-cane-toad-control.shtml Appearantly, Rick Shine mentions a technique in which meat ants are encouraged to build colonies near toad breeding ponds. One way would be to plant trees the ants favour. KVDP (talk) 16:58, 12 January 2017 (UTC)

Native bufotoxin-immune predators
In their native region, snakes and caimans hunt on the cane toad. In Australia, caimans (like Crocodylus johnsoni) too are found to hunt the cane toad, but they die due to the bufotoxins in the toad. So, a logical solution would be to just genetically alter Crocodylus johnsoni' to have bufotoxin resistance. This could be done by identifying the genes responsable for the bufotoxin immunity in Leptodeira annulata and Caiman latirostris and then implementing this to Crocodylus johnsoni's. Has this not yet been done ? KVDP (talk) 17:23, 12 January 2017 (UTC)

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