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one male one female and down is more
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than sufficient to populate the entire
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top into the mortal territory
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the best thing is to get a little get a
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big stick and hit a method practice of
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going out and getting one of these
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things and putting them into a billy
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boiling it down and eating the residue I
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think is absolutely repulsive when I'm
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driving a car I have no hesitation of
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running over them whatsoever I couldn't
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do without them
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their friends
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Oh
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I can recall quite vividly seeing cane
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grubs early in the morning the beetle
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his flight early in the morning and land
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on the cane the cane was weighted down
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with beetles trees surrounding the cane
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farms weighted down with beetles
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sometimes farmers would cut around about
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800 ton to a thousand ton and the
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following year wouldn't cut a ton at all
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highly the situation really became
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desperate in the early 1930s due to the
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combined effect of grub attack and the
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effect of the depression on the world
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price of sugar so something had to be
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done to control of the grub if at all
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possible and of course the farmers never
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let up on their demands on the sugar
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Experiment Station start to do something
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about it
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well in 1932 there was a World
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Conference of sugar technologists held
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in Puerto Rico and we were represented
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at that conference by the assistant
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director of the sugar experiment
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stations mr. Arthur Bell
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I believe this evidence shows that the
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bull marinus or cane toad can be
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effectively used as a biological control
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of the gray bag grub and people and I
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strongly advocate the effective use of
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this amphibian immigrant which is doing
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its full share of benefit to our sugar
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industry and after those go back the
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suggestion that perhaps we could
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consider introducing the toad into this
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country from a white
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when Gumley was our entomologist at the
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time and he was said over there Hawaii
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to get a colony of toads together and
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bring them back to Australia and
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establish a colony in North Queensland
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this he did very effectively over the
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long period of course it was necessary
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to keep moisture up to the toads in
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their crate to keep them alive they
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couldn't feed them during the two-week
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trip that they would be experiencing
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getting down to Sydney from Hawaii and
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then of course the other two days to get
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them to Moringa in North Queensland
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before they could be put into a pond
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into an environment that they could
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relish
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when gum we treated them very very well
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he built a very elaborate - at Moringa
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with running water to encourage them to
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breathe and they responded to his
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treatment and they began to breathe very
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vigorously yes I could do it me me from
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the Teja first port of this place I
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brought here by a fella called juste in
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a couple of dishes there's about 40
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toads in in number in all and they were
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released in this particular spot over
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there and of course my dad was an
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Irishman and it was very very pleased
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and he was jubilant about the whole
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affair and more so that he said this and
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I quote we've got these bloody grubs by
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the balls this time and we'll go on to
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bigger and brighter things but
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tragically we didn't have the grubs by
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the balls they asked by the balls
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and plexuses sexual act where the male
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grasped the female but of course first
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he's got to get his female and after the
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rains when you have big areas of
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temporary water fresh water the males
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have gather around the ponds and they'll
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call and the call of course attracts the
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female and it goes something like this
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I suppose the female picks the best or
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the sweetest of those calls and when she
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approaches close the male will then
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grasp her into an plexus and he does
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that by getting his forearms which will
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notice a very very strong and he pushes
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on into the side just under the ribs and
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then on a salmon there is a nuptial pad
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this nuptial pad is very very sticky so
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that when he pushes he thumbs and his
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hands into the side of an abdominal
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cavity the grip is very very strong and
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firm of course it's important that the
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script be strong so that he doesn't fall
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off and so that other miles to come
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pushing off she takes him into the water
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and she exudes the eggs and long strands
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and as they come out the male releases
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sperm into the water which then
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fertilizes the eggs and these eggs are
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either wrapped around vegetation but
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usually it's just left to float in the
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water
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Oh
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Oh things one can code female can lay up
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to forty thousand eggs in a summer
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that's a large number of eggs
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the theory going that they need the
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forty thousand just so two can survive
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to replace the female in the mail but if
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you see ponds where cane toads have been
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breeding more than to survive
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besides the ponds are just black if
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young cane toads and from what I can see
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a large number of those survive the eggs
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stay in the water and then they start
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dividing and eventually they start to
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look like small tadpoles within the egg
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sac the tadpoles when they get
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sufficiently developed start wriggling
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and they ruptured the egg sac and they
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go into the water as tadpoles in the
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tadpole is a very distinctive tadpole
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it's glossy black no other Australian
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frog has a glossy black tadpole and then
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in the water for about four five weeks
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it develops the back legs come out then
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finally the front legs then the tail is
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reabsorbed and they move onto the land
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as small tones
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well they've been here for 50 years or a
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bit more and look there's just millions
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of them in this river there's certainly
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no shortage of cane toads in the area
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they have a tremendous success rate they
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can lay tadpoles and small puddles 15%
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sea water clear running rivers like this
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just about anywhere equally interesting
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is that these tadpoles if you look at
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them very carefully some of them are
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beginning to get legs and they do that
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at a very very small body size the
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native tadpoles have to get much much
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larger than these little fellows and so
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they have to stay in the water a little
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bit longer than what a cane toad can so
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cane toes get in fast big numbers
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they're out fast and it aids their
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colonization to a tremendous extent
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my first memory of the toad was the
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unusual noise that I heard in the
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billabong hole across from the house and
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I did inquire from our pest board
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officer as to what the noise would be
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and that was the giant toad they soon
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came out on the roads of a night and it
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did look as though they would really be
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a terrible menace that they would take
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possession of everything you'd flatten
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the mouth of the car and the stench from
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when we like a school of mullet coming
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up the river
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when one species of cane beetles in the
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cane fields it just doesn't come and
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contact with the ground and we know that
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cane toads can't fly and when the other
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species of cane beetle is in the cane
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fields it's there when there is no cover
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on the ground and cane toads just art in
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cane fields when there isn't any cover
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in short the lifestyles of the cane
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beetles and the cane toads just didn't
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synchronize it couldn't succeed they
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weren't much use at all as far as the
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cane beetle was concerned but they did
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manage to get rid of a lot of stray dogs
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the dogs would only attract until he's
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moving toads and grab them and of course
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the Buffalo Marino's only protection was
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he's poison second he used to let the
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dogs have it and eventually they for
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quite a few dog died
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you know looking back over the years and
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so forth when you look at our import
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what we brought into Australia this must
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have been a great country long before
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white men ever came to the joint we
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brought in foxes and hares and then to
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cap it all off we bring this monstrous
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thing called a toad in an Adelaide man
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has been fined for his bizarre
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impersonation of to Queensland identity
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crime Cannes reports police told the
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poor that late magistrates caught the 32
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year old Philip William Elliot was
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charged after he was found crouching on
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the side of a road at birkenhead in
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Adelaide
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police say Elliot was jumping out onto
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the road into the path of oncoming cars
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when he was questioned he told them he
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was the Jovi Aki Petersen and a cane
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toad he's pleaded guilty to the charge
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of disorderly behaviour and has been
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fine $50 the cane toad spread faster and
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more widely than we'd anticipated in the
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first instance and it wasn't long before
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it got into southern Queensland and then
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attracted a lot of attention from people
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who were not much interested in
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controlling cane grubs no matter where
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you
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Oh
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toad was introduced to about eight or
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nine different cane growing regions and
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since that time they cover about 40
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percent of the area of Queensland a
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small portion of northern New South
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Wales and they're moving over through
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the Gulf country and part of the
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Northern Territory it's difficult to go
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anywhere in Queensland without coming
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across references to all the idolatry
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concerned with the cane toad because
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they are they are ubiquitous they're
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absolutely everywhere people are brought
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up with them I think but and all the
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Queensland is a terribly protective of
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them it would seem that although
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something as obnoxious as the cane toad
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you would expect would have been
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eradicated by now far from it they
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because they've got them and nobody else
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has got them much the same as they've
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got Joan nobody else has got him yet
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they I think regard them with sort of
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perverted reverence
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hello dear John as this at all Ted story
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that's right how rich and Gordon died
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when I first from least the kind pout
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tell me about your recollections and
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renters they're nice first relation John
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yes now you know what a kerosene tin is
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like yes drop straight in they wouldn't
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go into a kerosene tea they would have
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eaten the cat that's right there with
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that mess that if you put them on a big
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square mouth shovel you couldn't lift
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them oh that is true as I stand here
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you're not pulling my leg I am NOT I can
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remember that was yesterday there are
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still quite a large number of the toads
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around but not as big as they used to me
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but I still love the animal and they
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give me a lot of enjoyment term that's
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often used to describe that relationship
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the toads have with people as homo
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philic which means that they just love
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people and this is true in so many
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different ways because we are just so
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kind to the toads usually we don't know
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that we're being so kind to them that we
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provide places for them to live around
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our Gardens under garden gnomes in pipes
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under houses we supply dinner for the
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many nights when we turn lights on and
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the toads sit around the lights and they
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eat the insects that come along well how
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do you see now I have quite a few which
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I attract by using a light which is not
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very powerful which attracts insects and
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also occasionally I feed them with cats
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I started food encaged risk it's because
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they started robbing the cats tissue
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briskets so I used to put this as a
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whisk except I didn't come inside so
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everybody was happy you can hear me our
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noise probably in the background which
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is a code which is probably mating and
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that's what I like about why they
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doubted things the way the hide and
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cunning enough to peek out behind things
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they can be behind the leaf something
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like that if you quick enough you'll see
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they're always what you move there you
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go I definitely think they're a harmless
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animal and nobody's got any right to
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fear that I'm not sure whether I would
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call them pets exactly but there they
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mates
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as open send we often see the mating
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right here in front of us on the lawn
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they are a magnificent animal if you
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just take the care and watch them and
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just see how they act under different
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circumstances
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that's the hard question to think of
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them as friends they're just friends
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friends I suppose because say they're
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around the place you get used to them
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you look for them they know they're
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there singing they're calling it's a
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it's not only a pleasant noise it's a
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friendly noise no I love it
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they are harmless and they jump they
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jump on us jump on my feet and they
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haven't no fear at all of coming near me
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or anybody that's with me well as a
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matter of fact there are some people up
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here that would like the cane toad
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recognized for what it's done for
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Queensland particularly and they were
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going to in fact erect a statue in its
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honor at Gordon Bell on the road
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approaches to Cairns
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well the proposal to commemorate the
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cane toad was brought before the
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Bicentennial Committee of the Margrave
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Shire Council to record a unique part of
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North Australia's history it was
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released from Moringa just outside
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Gordon bar it is going to be a cane toad
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bust of around about a metre in height
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sitting on a tooth two foot pedestal so
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all all up about five feet and if
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there's going to be photographers
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delight and the kids could sit on its
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shoulders and whatnot and all together
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it was going to be we felt like the dog
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sitting on the attacker box five miles
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and Gundagai and with that sort of
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tourist potential
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I surely this bar sir camping is right
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frame of mind fancy anyone wanted to
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erect a monument or a stone or some form
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of remembrance to this creature have
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been brought in
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the council eventually came to
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conclusion that wasn't in their best
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interest to do so personally I was
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extremely disappointed because I felt
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that this was without big chance to get
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a unique feature into our tourist
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development industry a young developing
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tourist industry where it was very
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special and the fact that that didn't
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come to fruition and I might add with
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not spending a penny of rate payers
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money because it was a Bicentennial
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project I felt that we just missed the
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boat just a little bit well bill Cogan
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from the Department of Defense came and
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seen me and asked could I bind a book
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for Prince Charles and Lady Di for the
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wedding present and he said he wants
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something very special and I thought all
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cane toads it took me about a month to
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more or less join five-six skins
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together and that's the finished product
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the Department of Defense received a
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letter from Buckingham Palace and it
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reads we are both overwhelmed by your
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great kindness in thinking of sending us
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such a splendid wedding present thank
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you so much for taking all the trouble
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to find something which is so greatly
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appreciated and will bring so much
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pleasure to both us throughout our
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married life you're sincerely Charles
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the cane toad poison is a mixture of
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several compounds and one group of
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compounds are steroids which affect
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heart muscle and these are known as Bufo
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toxins generally well these of course
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are the toxins that kill as a memo
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logist I always had native animals
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around me that I was studying all the
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time and I had a western native cat that
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was effectively a pet it had been with
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us for about five years and had been
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very important to me as a study animal
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the moment we got the Brisbin I left the
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thing out into the backyard as I was
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accustomed to doing it had the run of
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the outside and the inside and the first
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thing I did it rushed over and grabbed
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what to me in the dark looked like a
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gigantic frog never even thought about
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what it was and I didn't think anything
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more about it than that that's a natural
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thing for a native cat to do but about
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two minutes later the animals obviously
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in some kind of trouble it was beginning
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to sort of stick its tongue out and
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salivating rolling around on the ground
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within 20 minutes that beautiful unique
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animal which I can only say I wasn't I
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was told me in love with this was a this
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was something I was really wrapped up in
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died in my arms and techni contractions
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the glands that produce the toxic
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material are located in the skin but
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they're aggregated over the shoulder in
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this region here and here and if you
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were to press these glands but you
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should cover your eyes with glasses if
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you're going to engage in this type
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activity then if you were to press these
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glands here there you can see the venom
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set out they do there are numerous pores
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over those being set under pressure that
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toxic material will shoot for about a
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meter
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all in all it's a quite a cocktail of
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compounds toxic compounds and I think
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that people would do well to take care
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when handling toads hello oh hi Wendy
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he would just be after all people have
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been killed as a result of eating toads
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both in Fiji and in the Philippines are
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are well recorded instances take Neddie
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down there a couple times yeah
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as far as children are concerned oh I
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think that toads could be a real problem
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particularly with babies would be the
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young children who are attracted by the
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hopping gate of the toad see you then
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Wendy okay bye
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children booing what there will then
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inevitably squeeze the toads and
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probably put them in their mouths and
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suck them and so forth all the results
448
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could be quite disastrous
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the death of my native cat led me into a
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kind of an eternal revenge against the
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cane toads when I began to come to grips
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with what was going on here and every
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time I ended up in the bush somewhere in
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North Queensland I felt it was a bit of
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responsibility to reduce toad numbers so
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I was running around at night and I
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actually hit one of these cane toads
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with my geology pick and ants it's all
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my fault what happened but nevertheless
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it's an unforgettable experience the the
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moment I might pick hit the back of the
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toad the toad was instantly dead but I
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felt like somebody in turn and hit me
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right in the face with a baseball bat or
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like a bee had stung me in the eyeball
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it was the most excruciating pain I've
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been hit in the eye by the material
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jettisoned out of the gland of this toad
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and it was fully about six hours before
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I could actually begin to see out of
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that eye again it's it's a dreadfully
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incapacitating experience and when I
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would not want to go through ever again
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Donal Don Juan says that this is some of
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the South American Indians they when
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they get their mescaline out of the
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cactus they say that and have it that
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you actually start to see the world
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through the consciousness of the cactus
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that you start to see what the world
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looks like from the eyes of the cactus
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and he takes the same
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before Elaine is the active ingredient
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found in the skin of the cane toad it's
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listed as a dangerous drug in schedule
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two of Queensland's drugs misuse Act
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this means that it will attract a
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maximum penalty of life imprisonment
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under the drugs misuse Act Queensland
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police have power to stop and detain
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people and search people they reasonably
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suspect - carrying the drug and also to
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place tracking devices on vehicles they
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suspect to be carrying the drug okay -
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another security and then I first found
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out about the use of the toxins from the
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cane toad back in the 1970s when our
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station here is an investigating
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detective and we found that in places
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like hippie communes around ceded by and
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near Cannes
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when heroin and other drugs weren't
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freely available the next best
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alternative was to go out and get a cane
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toad kill it boil it down into a
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solution for ten minutes a little bit of
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water and drink the residue the effect
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that I found out that it had on them
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from what I've been told was that they
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had fantastic color hallucinations it
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warped their sense of time and it also
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affected their mental capacities and yes
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little quite easily a little quantity at
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first thing larger a little bit first
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I didn't didn't like it too much
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a Townsville man has claimed that cane
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toads were responsible for the death of
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22 of his large goldfish mr. Paul Devine
519
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president of the Townsville aquarium
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society has killed about 200 toads in an
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attempt to save his fish I think the
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biggest lots of golf fish I've had would
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be the latest time when when I've lost a
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lot of these fish where with a cane had
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I lost about 30 golf fish in that time
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the kind cacain dad's attacked the gulf
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fish in the pond as I scream around in
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the water the kind had a detective
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tried to get onto the fishin and
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strangling and consequently they kill
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with quality fish the kind of kind eyes
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were were were looking for someone to
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some something to run I hide with I
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think that's what what I wanna do in
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their brain G to try and mate with him
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they actually I you'll kill or I killed
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the other fish I've had him attempt to
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mate with my foot I've had him attempt
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to and Plex with my hand but most often
540
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I've seen him trying to amp Lex with
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hunks of mud once I realized what was
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what the cause was I immediately started
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getting rid of all these counters by
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killing the cane toads I got a piece of
545
00:30:12,559 --> 00:30:15,890
pipe and went about took getting rid of
546
00:30:15,890 --> 00:30:18,260
all these cane toads I caught up user
547
00:30:18,260 --> 00:30:23,149
cane toads were quite quite hard to kill
548
00:30:23,149 --> 00:30:25,850
so I got another fan on and push through
549
00:30:25,850 --> 00:30:29,120
the others and after bothered by a
550
00:30:29,120 --> 00:30:30,890
period of a week I killed one hundreds
551
00:30:30,890 --> 00:30:32,350
of cane toads
552
00:30:32,350 --> 00:30:36,140
there are there a bit of it over a rough
553
00:30:36,140 --> 00:30:39,740
Bunch but the they're all right outside
554
00:30:39,740 --> 00:30:43,539
the pond but not in in the pond
555
00:31:10,260 --> 00:31:14,680
on December 27 1959 on a dirt road three
556
00:31:14,680 --> 00:31:17,230
miles east of fingal bay an adult male
557
00:31:17,230 --> 00:31:19,930
toad was observed during ham plexis with
558
00:31:19,930 --> 00:31:22,660
an adult female toad at least three
559
00:31:22,660 --> 00:31:24,820
factors appeared quite unique about this
560
00:31:24,820 --> 00:31:27,910
situation first the female was dead and
561
00:31:27,910 --> 00:31:30,460
had been for some time it appeared as if
562
00:31:30,460 --> 00:31:33,430
she had fallen victim to a car the limbs
563
00:31:33,430 --> 00:31:35,950
were already stiff abdomen greatly
564
00:31:35,950 --> 00:31:38,020
distended and the smell of putrefaction
565
00:31:38,020 --> 00:31:41,200
about her secondly of course it appears
566
00:31:41,200 --> 00:31:42,640
strange that the male should be so
567
00:31:42,640 --> 00:31:44,650
intent as to fail to observe the females
568
00:31:44,650 --> 00:31:47,770
condition thirdly the time and place we
569
00:31:47,770 --> 00:31:50,320
encountered this pair was unusual it was
570
00:31:50,320 --> 00:31:52,510
at 1400 hours on a sunny afternoon but
571
00:31:52,510 --> 00:31:54,660
even more interesting was the location
572
00:31:54,660 --> 00:31:58,090
the middle of the road the sexual drive
573
00:31:58,090 --> 00:31:59,950
appears strong enough knees toes to
574
00:31:59,950 --> 00:32:02,559
explain his accepting her but his
575
00:32:02,559 --> 00:32:05,020
continuance through a possible 8 hours
576
00:32:05,020 --> 00:32:09,059
of daylight seems rather strange
577
00:32:16,170 --> 00:32:18,780
when we first came up north we had
578
00:32:18,780 --> 00:32:21,540
friends had two little girls and these
579
00:32:21,540 --> 00:32:24,770
little girls had the cane toads as pets
580
00:32:24,770 --> 00:32:27,120
instead of little dollies they had these
581
00:32:27,120 --> 00:32:28,680
contains they actually had little
582
00:32:28,680 --> 00:32:31,080
dresses made up from little skirts and
583
00:32:31,080 --> 00:32:33,900
beds in a doll's house they used to
584
00:32:33,900 --> 00:32:35,880
dress the toads up and tuck them into
585
00:32:35,880 --> 00:32:38,520
their little beds they used to carry
586
00:32:38,520 --> 00:32:40,080
them about and I wrapped up a little
587
00:32:40,080 --> 00:32:41,940
baby bunting type of things like you do
588
00:32:41,940 --> 00:32:44,640
little dollies these girls had names for
589
00:32:44,640 --> 00:32:46,890
them let's set up little tea parties and
590
00:32:46,890 --> 00:32:49,770
they used to get these toads and scratch
591
00:32:49,770 --> 00:32:51,870
their tummy and the things that lay back
592
00:32:51,870 --> 00:32:53,910
obviously enjoying it and stick their
593
00:32:53,910 --> 00:32:56,610
legs up into the air and and just fall
594
00:32:56,610 --> 00:32:58,590
asleep in our the most contented good
595
00:32:58,590 --> 00:33:05,480
little just so ugly
596
00:33:17,240 --> 00:33:34,400
you just began if everyone who look at
597
00:33:34,400 --> 00:33:38,880
what I want even my god stop or Monica
598
00:33:38,880 --> 00:33:42,510
beach a coupon for a cookie love de
599
00:33:42,510 --> 00:33:47,610
parar you might in school you can be a
600
00:33:47,610 --> 00:33:48,830
painter
601
00:33:48,830 --> 00:33:50,830
Oh
602
00:34:16,000 --> 00:34:20,168
when I tickle his tummy he is he really
603
00:34:20,168 --> 00:34:23,139
likes it but if I tickle his feet he
604
00:34:23,139 --> 00:34:26,250
doesn't like sometimes I'm calling
605
00:34:26,250 --> 00:34:29,168
greening sometimes I call him ready
606
00:34:29,168 --> 00:34:34,469
sometime not calling came almost tied
607
00:34:34,469 --> 00:34:39,099
sometimes I call him Dairy Queen well
608
00:34:39,099 --> 00:34:40,060
there's a number of popular
609
00:34:40,060 --> 00:34:42,040
misconceptions about cane toads one of
610
00:34:42,040 --> 00:34:43,690
which is that they feel disgusting to
611
00:34:43,690 --> 00:34:46,060
touch but this isn't true at all they
612
00:34:46,060 --> 00:34:48,820
feel quite dry not slimy the skin is
613
00:34:48,820 --> 00:34:50,739
slightly rough but it does have a nice
614
00:34:50,739 --> 00:34:53,139
silky feeling and you don't get warts
615
00:34:53,139 --> 00:34:55,750
from them another misconception is that
616
00:34:55,750 --> 00:34:57,640
just by touching them the toads will
617
00:34:57,640 --> 00:34:59,500
exude their poison and this is also not
618
00:34:59,500 --> 00:35:02,560
true for a toad like this to exude any
619
00:35:02,560 --> 00:35:04,630
of its poison from its glands it has to
620
00:35:04,630 --> 00:35:06,460
be severely harassed for instance being
621
00:35:06,460 --> 00:35:08,080
picked up in a dog's mouth and really
622
00:35:08,080 --> 00:35:10,570
severely shaken I mean to just handle a
623
00:35:10,570 --> 00:35:12,910
toad like this it doesn't cause at any
624
00:35:12,910 --> 00:35:14,859
distress at all in fact I think they
625
00:35:14,859 --> 00:35:15,820
quite like it
626
00:35:15,820 --> 00:35:20,260
lower King 2 may look spike
627
00:35:20,260 --> 00:35:25,859
Annie's manners may be frightened boy
628
00:35:34,820 --> 00:35:38,760
we had rain here we had a bad 12:14
629
00:35:38,760 --> 00:35:41,520
offer on a driveway and it was some kind
630
00:35:41,520 --> 00:35:43,920
of a little boat flying around yeah and
631
00:35:43,920 --> 00:35:45,330
they were going after those folks
632
00:35:45,330 --> 00:35:46,680
they're all fighting over the one dollar
633
00:35:46,680 --> 00:35:49,140
we'll eat cat food yeah thank you for
634
00:35:49,140 --> 00:35:50,670
that call okay have a good day
635
00:35:50,670 --> 00:35:53,520
a July yes if the dogs and cats don't
636
00:35:53,520 --> 00:35:57,960
come straightaway to be fed they will be
637
00:35:57,960 --> 00:35:59,970
have all their food eaten up by cane
638
00:35:59,970 --> 00:36:01,440
toads they'll just come in they love
639
00:36:01,440 --> 00:36:03,480
anything brave in peace it doesn't
640
00:36:03,480 --> 00:36:05,100
matter I'll watch it what it is if the
641
00:36:05,100 --> 00:36:06,870
dog doesn't have it it's gone by morning
642
00:36:06,870 --> 00:36:09,210
the kite and tides do not mess about but
643
00:36:09,210 --> 00:36:10,950
get in for their bit and they eat it all
644
00:36:10,950 --> 00:36:12,840
up one of their ways of amusing
645
00:36:12,840 --> 00:36:16,320
ourselves at nighttime was to feed him
646
00:36:16,320 --> 00:36:18,660
with cigarettes of these Buffalo merino
647
00:36:18,660 --> 00:36:20,670
toads could really smoke they loved them
648
00:36:20,670 --> 00:36:24,360
it will clean up the slugs the snails
649
00:36:24,360 --> 00:36:27,590
and a lot of other pests in the garden
650
00:36:27,590 --> 00:36:31,500
they can't hurt like to going underneath
651
00:36:31,500 --> 00:36:35,670
lights their lace reflects the moths the
652
00:36:35,670 --> 00:36:39,630
insects when this way he goes under
653
00:36:39,630 --> 00:36:42,390
needed and swallows him up he say action
654
00:36:42,390 --> 00:36:45,630
is the same thing like a vacuum cleaner
655
00:36:45,630 --> 00:36:48,420
if you see something pop off he goes and
656
00:36:48,420 --> 00:36:50,310
pick it up and swallow it in like a
657
00:36:50,310 --> 00:36:54,200
vacuum cleaner sucks it into his body
658
00:36:54,680 --> 00:36:57,690
gut content analysis is shown as it'll
659
00:36:57,690 --> 00:36:59,790
eat virtually any living thing that's
660
00:36:59,790 --> 00:37:01,500
small enough to get in its mouth from
661
00:37:01,500 --> 00:37:06,270
frogs to our small birds to caterpillars
662
00:37:06,270 --> 00:37:09,840
to insects crabs all sorts of things
663
00:37:09,840 --> 00:37:12,390
in fact one research has showed that the
664
00:37:12,390 --> 00:37:14,250
toad will even try and eat ping-pong
665
00:37:14,250 --> 00:37:16,170
balls as they bounce past the front of
666
00:37:16,170 --> 00:37:18,780
them so the general selection of food
667
00:37:18,780 --> 00:37:21,450
for a cane toad is if it moves or even
668
00:37:21,450 --> 00:37:23,400
if it doesn't move if it can be fitted
669
00:37:23,400 --> 00:37:24,960
into its mouth and it will attempt to
670
00:37:24,960 --> 00:37:27,150
eat it we even found situations which
671
00:37:27,150 --> 00:37:29,130
the wretched toads were eating the
672
00:37:29,130 --> 00:37:31,560
native animals in one case a toad was
673
00:37:31,560 --> 00:37:33,720
gutted and found to contain in its
674
00:37:33,720 --> 00:37:36,240
stomach a pygmy marsupial Mouse and this
675
00:37:36,240 --> 00:37:38,850
is a very rare native marsupial which in
676
00:37:38,850 --> 00:37:40,560
fact I was studying as a student at that
677
00:37:40,560 --> 00:37:41,370
point so is there
678
00:37:41,370 --> 00:37:42,870
interested one of these really important
679
00:37:42,870 --> 00:37:44,430
animals to me came out of the stomach of
680
00:37:44,430 --> 00:37:47,430
a cane toad anything that moved that was
681
00:37:47,430 --> 00:37:49,530
smaller than the cane toad was potential
682
00:37:49,530 --> 00:37:51,800
prey
683
00:38:34,200 --> 00:38:36,700
well the cane toads clean our wildlife
684
00:38:36,700 --> 00:38:40,210
not just by eating it it's also killing
685
00:38:40,210 --> 00:38:42,670
it by being eaten by that wildlife this
686
00:38:42,670 --> 00:38:45,760
Death Adder here for example has no
687
00:38:45,760 --> 00:38:49,180
sooner grasp this cane toad and it's
688
00:38:49,180 --> 00:38:52,360
dead the damage that he has inflicted on
689
00:38:52,360 --> 00:38:53,830
the natural environment itself
690
00:38:53,830 --> 00:38:57,100
you take ibises wild duck they're all
691
00:38:57,100 --> 00:38:58,840
been affected by this fellow soon as
692
00:38:58,840 --> 00:39:01,060
they eat him he'd they die I have seen
693
00:39:01,060 --> 00:39:03,820
snakes Taipans death adders you'd open
694
00:39:03,820 --> 00:39:05,920
them up and be a toad inside them he has
695
00:39:05,920 --> 00:39:08,020
definitely destroyed most of the natural
696
00:39:08,020 --> 00:39:09,970
habitat around this place it was quite
697
00:39:09,970 --> 00:39:11,860
common to have kookaburras for example
698
00:39:11,860 --> 00:39:13,360
brought in with a cane toad half down
699
00:39:13,360 --> 00:39:15,820
its throat in a way that a kookaburra
700
00:39:15,820 --> 00:39:17,410
could normally manage a native animal
701
00:39:17,410 --> 00:39:19,420
but halfway through the process of
702
00:39:19,420 --> 00:39:21,100
swallowing this cane toad who falls out
703
00:39:21,100 --> 00:39:22,720
of the tree stone dead and it's like
704
00:39:22,720 --> 00:39:24,490
it's swallowed a cyanide pill and this
705
00:39:24,490 --> 00:39:25,750
is a thing that kind of scared us these
706
00:39:25,750 --> 00:39:29,290
little walking disaster areas unlike any
707
00:39:29,290 --> 00:39:31,570
other kind of prey that the native
708
00:39:31,570 --> 00:39:34,540
animals were accustomed to they gave the
709
00:39:34,540 --> 00:39:36,430
native animals no second chance
710
00:39:36,430 --> 00:39:38,560
no warning no bitter taste that makes
711
00:39:38,560 --> 00:39:40,450
you drop the animal if they bit it
712
00:39:40,450 --> 00:39:42,400
firmly enough behind a head they were
713
00:39:42,400 --> 00:39:44,800
dead so from that point of view it's a
714
00:39:44,800 --> 00:39:46,480
disaster because it's an introduction of
715
00:39:46,480 --> 00:39:48,340
an animal that the bush simply had no
716
00:39:48,340 --> 00:39:50,350
experience with and couldn't cope with
717
00:39:50,350 --> 00:39:53,740
he's poses a bigger Menace as the German
718
00:39:53,740 --> 00:39:55,300
army did in World War two
719
00:39:55,300 --> 00:39:57,100
the invasion is on and I appeal to
720
00:39:57,100 --> 00:39:59,560
everybody to wherever you see a toad if
721
00:39:59,560 --> 00:40:00,730
no hesitation running over and killing
722
00:40:00,730 --> 00:40:03,180
the monster
723
00:40:30,510 --> 00:40:32,609
well I line them up with the driver's
724
00:40:32,609 --> 00:40:36,660
side front wheel and it's not quite as
725
00:40:36,660 --> 00:40:38,609
easy as it used to be with the big fat
726
00:40:38,609 --> 00:40:40,859
tires on the RX 4 master but I seem to
727
00:40:40,859 --> 00:40:42,930
be able to get most of the ones I line
728
00:40:42,930 --> 00:40:45,440
up on the right-hand side of the road I
729
00:40:45,440 --> 00:40:48,630
know I've made a clean kill particularly
730
00:40:48,630 --> 00:40:50,820
if the toad is actually facing towards
731
00:40:50,820 --> 00:40:52,230
the vehicle because the air that's
732
00:40:52,230 --> 00:40:54,510
inside the toad is trapped within the
733
00:40:54,510 --> 00:40:56,520
head and blown out towards the back end
734
00:40:56,520 --> 00:40:57,960
and the toad really goes off with a
735
00:40:57,960 --> 00:41:04,349
being like a balloon going off well I
736
00:41:04,349 --> 00:41:06,480
really go out of my way to run over cane
737
00:41:06,480 --> 00:41:08,369
toads basically because I have a very
738
00:41:08,369 --> 00:41:10,230
profound love of the wildlife that
739
00:41:10,230 --> 00:41:12,390
occurs here naturally if it was possible
740
00:41:12,390 --> 00:41:14,579
to remove them and totally eradicate
741
00:41:14,579 --> 00:41:16,920
them from Australia and I was capable of
742
00:41:16,920 --> 00:41:19,440
doing it I would spend a lifetime doing
743
00:41:19,440 --> 00:41:22,160
exactly that
744
00:41:22,670 --> 00:41:27,200
anyone tried to hurt one of my toads
745
00:41:27,200 --> 00:41:30,380
there'd be a lot of noise and they
746
00:41:30,380 --> 00:41:35,130
realize I wouldn't a lady no and I must
747
00:41:35,130 --> 00:41:37,080
confess I don't like that look at the
748
00:41:37,080 --> 00:41:39,300
animal no I can't have any strong
749
00:41:39,300 --> 00:41:41,280
affection for him but I think I've got
750
00:41:41,280 --> 00:41:42,900
to give him credit for doing a good job
751
00:41:42,900 --> 00:41:45,510
for us the cane toad is really an
752
00:41:45,510 --> 00:41:48,930
excellent invasion machine it is made in
753
00:41:48,930 --> 00:41:51,750
many ways so that it can move rapidly
754
00:41:51,750 --> 00:41:55,440
into an area it is able to move human
755
00:41:55,440 --> 00:41:57,480
assisted as well as under its own steam
756
00:41:57,480 --> 00:42:01,290
it reproduces incredibly well it can
757
00:42:01,290 --> 00:42:04,200
produce 30,000 eggs per year start
758
00:42:04,200 --> 00:42:06,420
producing after one year may be produced
759
00:42:06,420 --> 00:42:09,630
for 16 years its connect virtually
760
00:42:09,630 --> 00:42:12,360
anything so food requirements aren't
761
00:42:12,360 --> 00:42:14,040
really a problem it can live in most
762
00:42:14,040 --> 00:42:16,140
habitats as long as the some water and
763
00:42:16,140 --> 00:42:19,800
it has got excellent predator defense
764
00:42:19,800 --> 00:42:22,020
because it is poisonous at most stages
765
00:42:22,020 --> 00:42:24,030
of its life cycle so nothing can really
766
00:42:24,030 --> 00:42:26,570
touch it it's a great machine indeed
767
00:42:26,570 --> 00:42:29,960
these eight toads at one sitting and
768
00:42:29,960 --> 00:42:33,210
produce a hundred and twenty thousand
769
00:42:33,210 --> 00:42:36,120
eggs they might do that too perhaps even
770
00:42:36,120 --> 00:42:38,820
three times a year come the wet season
771
00:42:38,820 --> 00:42:40,500
in the top end and the world-famous
772
00:42:40,500 --> 00:42:42,360
wetlands you're going to have nothing
773
00:42:42,360 --> 00:42:44,580
but a sea of little black tadpoles in
774
00:42:44,580 --> 00:42:47,820
the dry season those famous worldwide
775
00:42:47,820 --> 00:42:48,660
Billabong's
776
00:42:48,660 --> 00:42:51,030
are going to be seething with hundreds
777
00:42:51,030 --> 00:42:53,250
of thousands of toads just like these
778
00:42:53,250 --> 00:42:55,890
from there the total conquest of
779
00:42:55,890 --> 00:42:58,080
northern Australia is but a hop step and
780
00:42:58,080 --> 00:43:00,360
a jump our studies would indicate that
781
00:43:00,360 --> 00:43:02,520
it's possible that the toad will spread
782
00:43:02,520 --> 00:43:04,650
right across the northern part of the
783
00:43:04,650 --> 00:43:06,690
Northern Territory this far as the
784
00:43:06,690 --> 00:43:08,790
Kimberley region in northern Western
785
00:43:08,790 --> 00:43:11,700
Australia down the coast of Queensland
786
00:43:11,700 --> 00:43:14,130
and as far south into New South Wales is
787
00:43:14,130 --> 00:43:16,200
possibly coffs harbour it's entirely
788
00:43:16,200 --> 00:43:18,270
possible when you consider what we're
789
00:43:18,270 --> 00:43:20,010
previously thought to be the limitations
790
00:43:20,010 --> 00:43:22,530
on the toad and what it seems to be able
791
00:43:22,530 --> 00:43:24,780
to do now that the toad is rapidly
792
00:43:24,780 --> 00:43:27,150
adapting the conditions that previously
793
00:43:27,150 --> 00:43:29,310
might have constrained it if the the
794
00:43:29,310 --> 00:43:31,470
toad is coming in basically it's going
795
00:43:31,470 --> 00:43:33,240
to come in I can't see any simple way of
796
00:43:33,240 --> 00:43:34,289
stopping as it press
797
00:43:34,289 --> 00:43:36,779
so what we're going to gradually see is
798
00:43:36,779 --> 00:43:39,049
one of these classic human disasters of
799
00:43:39,049 --> 00:43:42,299
a monoculture gradually a single species
800
00:43:42,299 --> 00:43:44,219
replacing and a single introduced
801
00:43:44,219 --> 00:43:46,289
species replacing many many natural
802
00:43:46,289 --> 00:43:49,049
species so that what's really happening
803
00:43:49,049 --> 00:43:51,479
here is that an ecosystem is it threat
804
00:43:51,479 --> 00:43:53,999
by being chopped away at the base and
805
00:43:53,999 --> 00:43:57,660
that will have repercussions all the way
806
00:43:57,660 --> 00:43:59,579
up through behold the food chain in
807
00:43:59,579 --> 00:44:01,859
which the tote is insinuated itself so
808
00:44:01,859 --> 00:44:03,239
that we don't really know what the full
809
00:44:03,239 --> 00:44:04,979
effect ultimately will be but already
810
00:44:04,979 --> 00:44:06,569
we've seen that some of the dominant
811
00:44:06,569 --> 00:44:08,910
carnivores in those ecosystems are
812
00:44:08,910 --> 00:44:11,729
probably going to vanish at the moment
813
00:44:11,729 --> 00:44:14,519
we have absolutely no way of controlling
814
00:44:14,519 --> 00:44:17,089
the Conti
815
00:44:30,990 --> 00:44:33,990
don't
816
00:44:47,420 --> 00:44:49,450
Oh
817
00:44:51,959 --> 00:44:54,959
why
818
00:45:00,330 --> 00:45:04,560
like against your food
819
00:45:07,050 --> 00:45:10,310
oh yeah
820
00:45:10,310 --> 00:45:13,900
about the dance breathe
821
00:45:15,360 --> 00:45:18,589
okay coming
822
00:45:18,589 --> 00:45:21,460
and dogs coming
823
00:45:43,810 --> 00:45:45,840
Oh
824
00:45:47,720 --> 00:45:50,720
yeah
825
00:46:13,619 --> 00:46:15,619
Oh
826
00:46:19,109 --> 00:46:21,289
there
59091
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