WOw!

Reading the whole story, what an example of DON'T MESS WITH NATURE!

They import 101 of them to kill an insect and wind up over-run with 200 million of them!

EEEEEEEEEEEEEEDIOTS!

YIKES!

I didn't cut n paste enuff of the story, but they're supposedly deadly!

woah!......just woah......

 frog legs not on the menu then??

not even in mustard?

JD The Jazz Doctor wrote:

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I think jules said she had one of these in her bathroom and it freaked her out!

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Do you want to know what it is like to walk in there and find one of those in the bathroom...especially when you have 3 young nephews screaming in fear attached to your legs!

I freaked out enough...but I had to get the blasted thing out...yuck...they are horrible! I just got the broom out and gave it a tremendous swing and knocked the thing out...then I bolted!!

At your service!!

 

FULL STORY.

FASCINATING, really, REALLY fascinating. Don't mess with nature folks. Everything is where it is for a reason

CANBERRA, Australia - Environmentalists have asked Australia's military to wage war on cane toads, which have spread across the country's north in near-plague proportions.

The toads, introduced in a batch of 101 from Hawaii in 1935 in a failed bid to control native cane beetles, have spread 3,000 kilometers (1,900 miles) from northeast Queensland to Darwin in Australia's tropical north. There are now more than 200 million.

"We need as many people on the ground as we can possibly get, and if the military can work out strategies for controlling toads on their ground, well that's fine with us," Frog Watch spokesman Ian Morris told Australian Broadcasting Corp. radio on Wednesday.

Cane toads are one of Australia's worst environmental mistakes, ranking alongside the catastrophic introduction of rabbits.

The spread of the toads, whose skin is poisonous, has led to dramatic declines in populations of native snakes, goanna lizards and quolls. A quoll is a cat-sized marsupial.

Killing the hardy toads with anything from golf clubs to air rifles has become a northern Australian pastime, and their carcasses are turned into comic tourist ornaments and fertilizer.

Graham Sawyer of Frog Watch, a pressure group that cares for frogs but battles the invading toads, has organized "Toad Busts" among Darwin residents, who catch the animals with traps and plastic bags in a bid to slow their steady march westwards.

"It's still early enough. We're not going to stop every single cane toad from getting in to Darwin, but what we'll do is get rid of them all as they arrive, and stop that build-up of toads," Sawyer said.

Since their introduction cane toads have evolved bigger legs to help them move faster, expanding their territory westward by around 40 kilometers (25 miles) a year.

A Northern Territory lawmaker called in 2005 for a legislated national attack on cane toads, but withdrew the demand in the face of criticism from animal rights groups.