Posted on 01/20/2023 11:02:17 AM PST by DUMBGRUNT
Gray and her colleagues caught the animal and brought it back to their office, where it weighed in at a 2.7 kg (6 pounds).
Gray’s colleague, senior park ranger Barry Nolan, told Reuters the animal was euthanised due to its “ecological impact” — the usual fate for the toads across Australia.
Cane toads were introduced to Australia in 1935 to control cane beetles and other pests but their population exploded and with no natural predators they have become a threat to Australian species, Nolan said.
Toadzilla’s body was donated to the Queensland Museum for research.
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Some idiot figured Australia didn’t have enough poisonous/dangerous critters so some have to be imported?
It had to have been a bureaucrat at high levels!
If they have to euthanize it.....they shoulda stuffed it...would have been a great learning tool. After all, it was the largest one found so far. Not to mention an example of the bad decision by the toady politicians who made the judgement to import the things.
That sucker may be too big to jump?
The last time I looked all the track and field jumpers were lean and lanky.
Shotput?
the above is not a statement of fact...
it is either opinion, or satire, or both... 😁
Its a rule here that misdirected links should at least lead to some kind of porn.
Naples Florida is overrun with them. My buddies and I would go around with golf clubs and whack them, but we found out that knocking them 50 yards didn’t actually kill them.
So now I walk around after dark with an 8 foot long closet rod, sharpened to a point on one end. Now I skewer them by the dozens every night!
Rich Levine?
Here it is:
They did the same thing with the Columbia River. Some genius introduced the Northern Pike Minnow to eat the native Lamp Rey because the Lamp Rey would eat the salmon and steelhead roe and smolts.
After nearly wiping out the Lamp Rey, the Nothern Pike Minnow was left with the salmon and steelhead roe and smolts to eat.
So, the Fish & Game placed a $3/head bounty on them, and several people make a full-time living fishing for them.
In the meantime, the marine mammal protection act has resulted in thousands of sea lion and seals congregating at the mouth of the Columbia to gorge themselves on salmon and steelhead, some even make their way up the river to the Bonneville Dam to lay in wait and catch their fish at the narrow openings of the fish ladder.
The deviousness of the man in this cartoon and how the entire thing turned out was a life lesson to me on Saturday mornings.
I thought Barney Fwank was the world’s largest toad.
There was a story some time ago about how there was a cartoon raccoon on TV in Japan so some Japanese imported raccoons as pets, but when the raccoons became unmanageable they released them into the wild. Now they are pests and are doing damage to old Buddhist shrines, among other things.
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