Anonymous Report This Comment Date: March 27, 2007 10:00AM
Giant cane toad found
March 27, 2007 12:00
Article from: The Daily Telegraph (Sydney Australia)
A CANE toad the size of a small dog has been caught by a pest eradication group
in the Northern Territory of Australia.
FrogWatch, a group culling the introduced menace across the Northern Territory,
has found a toad measuring 20cm in length and weighing 860gm.
Volunteers discovered the whopping hopper and 38 smaller toads at Lee Point in
the city's northern surburbs.
FrogWatch's Graeme Sawyer said the monster toad was the size of a small dog.
"The only bigger cane toad I've seen is in a specimen bottle in a museum in
Brisbane," he said.
"I reckon I've probably seen 50,000 to 60,000 cane toads in the last 12
months and there is nothing even remotely close to this thing."
Mr Sawyer said he was surprised by the toad's sex.
"The biggest toads are usually females, but this one is a rampant
male," he said.
"He is huge; I would hate to meet his big sister.
"The highly publicised big female caught in the city recently was little
over
15 centimetres (6inches), this monster is another five centimetres (2inches)
longer and one-third heavier."
A number of toad busts have been organised by FrogWatch to minimise the
pest's
spread during the wet season.
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Anonymous Report This Comment Date: March 28, 2007 03:43AM
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Anonomous Report This Comment Date: June 06, 2024 12:29PM
A destructive pest that should be eradicated.