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13th February 2016, 06:59 PM #16
Roy I grew up in Earlville, Cairns about 20 km from the original breeding & release site. As kids in the early 1960's we used to have competitions to collect the most toad eggs from the local creeks. Honestly you could fill the old galv buckets with strings of toad eggs from the creek and not even make a dent in the huge masses of eggs. Of an evening when the brown beetles used to mass around the lights of the house there would literally be 50 to 100 toads in the back yard. The documentary is spot on - if anything it is probably quite conservative with many of the claims. I haven't seen a cane toad as big as the one the little girl had as a pet but I've seen some around 3/4 of that size.
We started noticing toads turned upside down and ripped open in the early 1970's when we used to canoe down the Mulgrave River from the Fisheries. Popular opinion was that the white tailed rats had worked out which bits were safe to eat. In another doco - wildlife officers in the NT & Kakadu were trapping wild Northern Quolls & teaching them that cane toads don't taste very good then releasing them back into the wild to teach their mates.Mobyturns
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