In Australia toad "strangled" crocodiles Bashny.Net

The population of freshwater crocodiles that live in the mouth of the river Victoria (Australia) was under threat from cane toads common. The essence of risk that the mutation has endowed these frogs with claws and fangs. Wine happened is people.



Cane toads are not native inhabitants of the Australian fauna, they were delivered in 1930, as natural enemies of insect pests of sugar cane. Toad, cope with insects, now pose a major threat to all predators of Australia, as they themselves become pests. In 35 years no one would have thought that the poison which produce the mucous membranes and the skin of toads may be a threat to other animal populations of Australia.





When cane toads were destroyed by insect pests, they moved westward to colonize new territory. This movement does not stop now. Toads are poisonous and any predator would dare to eat a juicy and fatty amphibian die. Cane toads in less than a century has destroyed most of the populations of Australian carnivorous lizards and snakes. Reaching the river Victoria, the frogs had reduced the number of freshwater crocodiles somewhere in the 70%.





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