When it comes to Australian animals, kangaroo koalas are naturally the first to bear the brunt. Oh, as a writer who has lived in Australia for ten years, it would be vulgar if it were clichéd. In the next few articles, I will pick a few animals with less high exposure to talk about.
The champion caught in the toad catch
Last April and May, I attended an evening toad hunt organized by Darwin Safari. Because the flashlight was not powerful, he walked around for more than an hour and returned empty-handed. Fortunately, the other participants were quite fruitful, with a total of more than 80 large and small toads caught, and the champion weighed 780 grams (see figure below). The reader may ask: Why are you looking for toads? Pick toad crisp (a Chinese medicine, one taste in the Six Gods Pill)? Well, that's a long story, and listen to me briefly.
Toads can grow to weigh more than 2.5 kg
One day in 1935, in the sugarcane fields of Cairns, Queensland (a city famous for its great barrier reef tourism), 102 young and middle-aged sugarcane toads immigrated from Hawaii stepped out of their cages and stepped into the familiar and unfamiliar sugarcane fields. Soon they found that the sugarcane beetles that had previously relied on for food in their hometown were now high, but fortunately they did not have to work hard to jump high to hunt, and a large number of insects and lizards were at their fingertips.
The toad in the hometown of South America eats bats
Time jumps back to today, 79 years later, Australian sugarcane toads number more than 2 billion, across the continent, arriving in Western Australia. The original lofty ideals of supporting agriculture and fighting insect pests and pests have long been put on the back of their minds, and the toad army is so shy that the general's belly, long and short legs, and rolls over the eyes of the toad are proud of this fertile land of invincibility (natural enemies). Due to the poison of the toad, all species that try to feed on it, such as the large brown snake, the large lizard, and the tasmanian mustela, are facing the disaster of extinction. Local frogs fling 2,000 tadpoles at a time, 8,000 to 30,000 toads, there is such a squeeze on others. There is currently no effective control. Animal protection groups have launched three magic weapons: drip, phenol and golf clubs, but unfortunately the government has rejected it. The reason is that the first two will poison other creatures, and the latter is afraid that people will mistakenly injure innocent frogs.
Would you like to wear a toad skin hat? The fare is $120. So temperamental!
Ecology is a very magical thing, and when a species is poisoned, intelligent species will learn to survive; intelligent crows already know how to hit the toad's belly, and the "rapid advance" (expansion rate of forty kilometers a year) has begun to suffer from arthritis itself. Alas, it was not the life of this movement, and it was still filled with this jeep (there is a joke, the toad is on the road, the jeep is in the middle of the ling)?
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