Some time ago, netizens who were busy falling in love with four paper people have recently become addicted to Buddhist frog raising.
They were either watching the house waiting for their son to come home, or they were muttering why he hadn't traveled yet.
In the subtle switch between these two states, everyone is addicted to this "torture".
But it's not just humans who indulge in toads.
In the real world, another large-scale toad-sucking movement is also happening to the Wang Xing people in Australia.
They are more knowledgeable than netizens, sucking on the real, experiencing the most extreme pleasure.
These dogs fell in love with licking toads, causing their owners to twist them to a drug rehab center.
Curiosity is the nature of dogs, and they will lick and bite without hesitation when they see anything.
So the encounter between a stupid dog and a toad bouncing around the yard is almost an inevitable result.
This soft ball of meat is completely a toy tailored for Wang Xingren.
But toads are not willing to be toyed with like this, and when stimulated, they will sweat like sweat, secreting a toad crisp mixed with a variety of venom to protect themselves.
Among them, toad toxin tryptamine (5-HO-DMT) and 5-Meo-DMT are the active ingredients that make pet dogs addicted.
From their abbreviated form, we know that they are related to the famous DMT tryptophan hallucinogen.
Smoking toad crisps causes psychedelic effects similar to those of strong hallucinogens such as LSD and mescaline.
Two potent hallucinogenic ingredients in toad puff pastry
Legally, this large category of hallucinogens is also classified as a first class of psychotropic drugs, which are controlled along with heroin and the like.
However, the law does not control whether a dog sniffs a toad or not, so it hurts a lot of dog owners.
Although the dingo licked the toad, it could not tell the human that it was hallucinating.
But as long as they are not poisoned by the toad's mucus, everyone can see the next series of strange behaviors of these dogs.
They roll their eyes blankly and spin and jump to embark on a psychedelic journey.
As if seeing something that no one can see, they will be extremely excited to hunt down some butterflies or insects that do not exist.
In fact, these dogs are also risking their lives to enjoy this cheap pleasure.
Because the toad's toad crisp is not only hallucinogens, but also contains a large number of life-threatening toxins.
Even if it is an effective hallucinogenic ingredient, once overdose, it is extremely easy to die.
Perhaps most Wang Xing people first experienced not psychedelics, but severe symptoms of poisoning.
They can have a rapid heartbeat, difficulty breathing, red and swollen gums, drooling, and spasms all over the body, which can be directly fatal in severe cases.
The Colorado River Toad, also known as the Psychedelic Toad, is the most hallucinogenic toad in the world
For example, humans suck toads, which are not as violent as dogs.
As early as the 1960s, American hippies were in love with the Colorado River Toad.
A 1995 psychedelic music record titled "Colorado River Toad" shows how much they adore toads.
But in general, they don't lick the toad directly with their mouth (except for certain special habits), but apply the toad crisp to the glass plate.
Once the slime has dried, it's baked and steamed for a psychedelic journey.
After all, they knew that the hallucinogenic effect of colorado river toad crisp could be more than ten times stronger than ordinary DMT.
And because of the stimulation of toxins, the whole tongue is paralyzed and ulcerated, which is not a good experience.
Directly licked the human tongue of the toad
In such a thing as drug use, human beings know that the harm is huge and cannot control themselves, let alone dogs.
If left unchecked, the Wang Xing people can suck up the poison more fiercely than humans, even if they are high to death, they may not necessarily stop.
Many shovelers say their dogs have been consciously or unconsciously looking for the next toad since they first licked it.
If one is not careful, these fallen dogs will begin the second and third relapse.
Veterinary hospitals in Australia have received a large number of such "habitual offenders", who have to be treated for toad poisoning several times a summer.
Almost every year during the rainy season, a large number of pet dogs are taken to life by toads.
Therefore, desperate dog owners will try to do everything possible to help their dogs quit drug addiction.
In some parts of Australia, pet centres have even launched detoxification programs to help pet dogs regain their lives.
In fact, it's not just Australian dogs that are so depraved.
Wherever there are toads and dogs in the world, there will basically be incidents of dogs licking toads.
It's just that Australia's "drug dealer", the sea toad, is too many and too powerful.
Their overabundance is the root cause of the threat to the survival of australian pet dogs.
In addition to teaching pet dogs to take drugs, these sea toads have even caused a large-scale ecological disaster in Australia.
Before the 1930s, this toad was not available in Australia's wildlife.
And why did the sea toad suddenly appear? Let's start with a sugarcane infestation in 1935.
That year, Australia's valuable sugar crops were about to be destroyed by the greedy sugar beetles.
After trying various methods of insecticide, scientists developed a solution - the introduction of sea toads.
The sea toad is the largest toad in the world and has a light skin color
Sea toads are also known as sugarcane toads, because they feed on beetles in Central America and other places, and are known as experts in controlling insect pests in sugar cane gardens.
So 102 sugar cane toads were welcomed by the people into Queensland, Australia, like saviors.
Everyone is waiting for these toads to eat the pests and save the local sugar cane industry.
Unfortunately, these sugarcane toads don't know they have such a heavy responsibility.
They are thrown into sugar cane fields in large quantities to eliminate the bugs on sugar cane.
But this beetle is nestled in the sugarcane flowers two meters high at the top.
So toads that are not good at climbing sugar cane can't help these pests at all.
Looking at the ugly toads that have no effect on insect pests, the cane farmers are angry and annoyed.
They ignored the 102 toads and went on to find new pest control solutions.
And things are out of control from this moment on.
The sea toads that have been left behind on the Australian land always have to survive.
If they can't eat beetles, they naturally start thinking about other creatures.
This is the advantage of omnivores, and the sea toad with a good appetite eats almost everything.
From insects to reptiles to small rodents, birds of all kinds, other amphibians and invertebrates, they are all in their pockets.
Even plants, human household garbage, dog food in pet bowls, they don't mind.
There is time when they are terriblely hungry, and they also eat smaller than their own kind.
Let go, didn't you say good about your own people?
In addition to its high predation skills and good appetite, sea toads also have a skill that can improve their comprehensive combat effectiveness - poison.
The tadpoles and adults of sea toads are highly toxic.
As soon as they are stimulated, their passive skills are fully open, secreting venom from the parotid glands.
The venom of an adult toad is enough to poison a slightly older child.
Milky white venom secreted by the toad parotid glands
In fact, this toxin is not very useful in the Americas, the home of sea toads.
Only because local behemoths such as South American bottlenose crocodiles, big-headed snakes and other big bosses are afraid of this.
But in Australia, the situation is different.
After all, the Australian fauna has evolved over more than 450 million years in isolation.
Therefore, these natives are completely resistant to this sea toad and its toxins, which seem to come from another planet.
Toads eat bats
Sea toads are like professional players who arrive at the novice village, directly dominate the Australian mainland, and teach the so-called top predators how to behave in minutes.
What kind of python plague, prehistoric giant crocodile, iron-armored evil lizard, night bat, and longevity turtle are all defeated in front of the sea toad.
Since sea toads invaded Australia, local residents have often seen the carcasses of poisoned crocodiles, pythons and monitor lizards on the shore.
In one sentence, you can sum up the way they killed all sides - those weaker than it were all eaten alive and stripped alive, and those who wanted to eat it were poisoned by it.
Almost all the animals that confronted them were not lucky enough to survive.
Goanna, an Australian reptile, has tried to digest the sea toad , the pawn
In addition to being extremely toxic, their reproductive ability in Australia is far beyond the imagination of scientists.
Native Australian frogs only lay 1,000 to 2,000 eggs in their lifetime.
However, sugarcane toads can lay 30,000-50,000 eggs at a time, and as many as 15 eggs are laid at a time.
Each time they lay thousands of eggs, they are 20 meters long when laid in the water.
Importantly, these eggs also have a higher chance of developing into toads than other amphibians.
After all, they change from eggs to tadpoles in only 3 days, and from tadpoles to toads in only 4 days.
Can eat, can live, and has no natural enemies, sea toads love the land of Australia to death.
Within a few years, they had gone from 102 toads to millions.
Diffusion map of the sugarcane toad, 1940-1980
Decades have passed and Australia's northern coast has completely fallen.
Experts speculated in 2000 that there were more than 1.5 billion sea toads in Australia as a whole.
Today, they are still spreading along the coastline at a migration rate of 60 kilometers per year.
And the toads kill everywhere they go, and many wildlife populations, especially reptiles, have fallen badly.
There are a total of 75 species of crocodiles and freshwater turtles, which are in a precarious situation.
For example, a monitor lizard called argus monitor has dropped by 90% after the sea toad invaded.
Argus monitor population, and the red zone (Kimberley area) sugarcane toad failed to invade in 2013
Australians think of these 102 abandoned sea toads, and their intestines must be remorseful.
It was only when they finally took up the weapons around them to fight them.
Since the 1990s, the Australian government has launched plans to eradicate sea toads in an effort to eradicate the scourge once and for all.
In China, where everyone is clamoring to eat all invasive species, it is hard to imagine the Australian people in the depths of the waters.
But you just have to imagine the rainy season coming, full of roads, full of yards crawling toads, it is estimated that people will collapse.
And because of their deadly venom, not only pet dogs but also ignorant children are at risk of poisoning.
Soon, a massive national toad massacre began.
Citizens use tennis rackets, golf clubs, shovels and other methods to kill as many toads as possible.
Sometimes they go out together at night, and even become a pastime between family or friends.
In order to better kill toads, Australia also produced a point 22 caliber clam hunting rifle bullet, small and accurate.
Not to be exaggerating, after a massive toad massacre in 1996, Australians bought back more than 600,000 automatic weapons at once.
In addition to hunting, the people of Tuao also used their wisdom to turn the corpses of these toads into treasures.
For example, various products such as wallets, bracelets, bookmarks, and belts are made from toad skins.
And in the last century, another important use of toads was pregnancy testing.
If pregnant women's urine is injected into the lymphatic sacs of male toads, their urine will contain sperm within one to three hours.
At that time, this method also occupied the mainstream market.
Toot specialties, sharp-eyed toad bow tie and coin purse
But more than twenty years later, sea toads seem to be unable to kill forever, and the rainy season is full of places.
In addition to the collective efforts of the residents, the scientists have not stopped researching.
They searched for viruses, bacteria, or parasites that could make toads sick, but without success.
After all, the most successful case, the virus that can kill 99% of Australia's hares, was accidentally discovered after a sudden epidemic of rabbits in a certain area.
Australia's once-infested hare
There are also those who want to release sterile males so that they can mate with females to reduce the number of the next generation.
But unless more male toads than the current population are released, this method is not reliable.
In view of these failures, environmental scholars seem to have despaired and begun Buddhist prevention.
They can be born if they want to, we just need to train the local wild animals to avoid them and not prey on toads.
Toad sausage
They catch large numbers of toads, then chop them into meat sauce to make special toad sausages, which are then thrown into the wild to feed the wild animals.
After eating these sausages with the smell of toads, the animals will vomit and other adverse reactions, but they will not die.
Scientists hope that these predators will have a long memory, and the next time they smell this smell, they will quickly slip away.
This is probably the only effective way to save these wild animals that have been poisoned by toads.
Perhaps the current Buddhist system of raising frogs is also a truth.
First use mobile phone games to let beautiful girls experience the anxiety of parenthood.
In this way, in the future, in the face of the biological "turtle son", there will be resistance.
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lan Frazier.Frogpocalypse Now.Outside Magazine.2017.03.23
Mark Lewis.《Cane Toads：The Conquest》.2010.05
Erin Parke.Cane toad sausages on the menu for Kimberley wildlife in taste aversion project. ABC NEWS.2016.11.15