Cane Toads Research Paper

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Cane toads originated from South America, were introduced to Australia in the early 20th century and have been in Australia for nearly 70 years. Cane toads were relocated by the Europeans to control destructive beetles that destroyed sugarcane in Cairns approximately 2900 young toads were released in Australia, after a while the group of Europeans discovered cane toads were unsuccessful at removing the cane bugs. Cane toads spread throughout Queensland, Cane toads have spread south and west and now cane toads can be found in Queensland, Northern Territory, New South Wales. Cane toads became were well known as an invasive species or pest. Cane toads eat bugs, ants, generally anything that could fit inside its mouth, most cane toads grow to 10-15cm long and females have been grown to 23cm colour ranges from grey to olive brown. They breed in slow moving water, females lay about 8- 35000 eggs a …show more content…

Since then, cane toads have been moving through Australia Northern scene and are moving westbound at 40 to 60 km each year. Cane toads populated Brisbane by 1945, Burketown by the mid-1980s, cane toad amphibians were acquainted in Byron Bay in 1965 and spread to shorelines of NSW in 2003. Cane toads colonise areas of human habitation and cause major impacts on health concerns to people, the risk of children or pets being poison from contact with the toads is a major concern. For Aboriginal people traditional food sources, the devastating impact on the native predator species such as goannas is also a concern, cane toads produce large numbers of offspring causing major concerns to the rapid increase rate of cane toads, research from the University of Sydney shows that cane toads are evolving adaptations to suit their new biodiversity, allowing toads to move at a rapid

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