How to Use cane toad in a Sentence
cane toad
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The record was set in March 1991 by a cane toad owned by a Swedish man.
—Aina J. Khan, NBC News, 20 Jan. 2023
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The cane toad may be the poster animal for invasive species.
—John Timmer, Wired, 29 Aug. 2021
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The dangerous cane toad lacks these crests, and the glands on its head are long and triangular shaped, UF Wildlife says.
—Tiffini Theisen, orlandosentinel.com, 3 Apr. 2019
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But things went downhill fast after cane toads were introduced in the 1930s.
—Matt Warren, Science | AAAS, 5 June 2018
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Elsewhere in the lab sat a reminder of the impact humans have already had on Mother Nature: the cane toad.
—Frances Vinall, Washington Post, 26 May 2022
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Today, the cane toad can be found all over northern Australia and south Florida.
—Amanda Foreman, WSJ, 1 Nov. 2018
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Such cannibalism among cane toads had not been observed in the toad’s native range.
—New York Times, 15 Mar. 2022
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Today, the two hundred million cane toads in Australia constitute a pest far worse than the one they were meant to control.
—Steven Strogatz, The New Yorker, 8 Aug. 2011
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Invasive species like foxes, wild cats, pigs, and cane toads also show up in photos.
—Erika Page, The Christian Science Monitor, 12 June 2023
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Now, Daniel Florance from the University of Sydney has found a clever way of corralling the cane toad invasion.
—Ed Yong, Discover Magazine, 22 Feb. 2011
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In honor of Steve Irwin’s birthday on Feb. 22, animal demos will include the boa, opossum and cane toad.
—courant.com, 10 Feb. 2022
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The kids are used to it, in addition to their interactions with a one-eyed cane toad named Pirate and a bearded dragon named Tad, among others.
—Jane Stueckemann, Houston Chronicle, 12 July 2019
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In Australia, native snakes evolved resistance to the toxins of invasive cane toads, and ate fewer toads.
—Max G. Levy, WIRED, 18 Aug. 2023
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From lionfish to pythons to cane toads, there are plenty of invasive species horror stories.
—Sara Kiley Watson, Popular Science, 25 Mar. 2020
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The Australian cane toad's population density is about 10 times that of their native range.
—John Timmer, Wired, 29 Aug. 2021
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Australian cane toad tadpoles have been observed feeding on their fellow cane toad offspring.
—John Timmer, Wired, 29 Aug. 2021
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Australia's battle with the formidable cane toad is so legendary; it was even referenced in a Simpson's episode.
—Discover Magazine, 29 June 2010
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But as the examples of the mongoose and cane toad illustrate, biological control can go awry.
—Christina Nunez, National Geographic, 5 June 2019
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The bufo toad, also known as the cane toad, is a common summer sight in South Florida, but experts in the area believe the species is returning in larger numbers than in previous years.
—Kyla Guilfoil, ABC News, 30 June 2022
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By 2003, the Australian government moved an insurance population of quolls to offshore islands free of cane toads.
—Ashley Braun, Longreads, 24 Oct. 2019
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One of Frankenberg’s offshoot projects is an attempt to edit the DNA of native animals to develop resistance to cane toad poison.
—Frances Vinall, Washington Post, 26 May 2022
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Australia has no natural predators or diseases that can control cane toad numbers.
—Will Sullivan, Smithsonian Magazine, 23 Jan. 2023
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Poisonous cane toads, for example, were brought to Kayangel Atoll in Palau to reduce monitor lizards’ predation on livestock.
—Marion Renault, New York Times, 15 May 2020
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One menace is cane toads, a North American poisonous amphibian introduced to Australia in the 1930s by farmers as pest control for sugar cane crops.
—Ben Panko, Smithsonian, 12 Sep. 2017
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But cane toads proved to be disastrously voracious, eating anything from honeybees to dog food.
—Sarah Lazarus, CNN, 26 Dec. 2019
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In the species' native South American habitat, cane toad tadpoles have previously been observed eating their peers.
—Elizabeth Gamillo, Smithsonian Magazine, 2 Sep. 2021
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Survival of the feces: Does a nematode lungworm adaptively manipulate the behavior of its cane toad host?
—Christie Wilcox, Discover Magazine, 28 Apr. 2018
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In some cases, discerning between two types of similar-looking creatures is important, as in the case of Australia’s invasive cane toad.
—National Geographic, 23 Jan. 2020
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Without predation to keep population numbers low, cane toad tadpoles began to eat their peers, reports Ars Technica's John Timmer.
—Elizabeth Gamillo, Smithsonian Magazine, 2 Sep. 2021
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To snuff out their competition for resources, cane toad tadpoles will actually cannibalize nearby cane toad eggs .
—Joseph Castro, Discover Magazine, 2 Sep. 2011
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