Group captures dog-sized ‘monster’ toad

[neoprodigy]

Group captures dog-sized ‘monster’ toad

2-pound, 15-inch poisonous cane toad found in Australian city of Darwin


Updated: 8:41 a.m. ET March 27, 2007

DARWIN, Australia - An environmental group said Tuesday it had captured a “monster” toad the size of a small dog.
With a body the size of a football and weighing nearly 2 pounds, the toad is among the largest specimens ever captured in Australia, according to Frogwatch coordinator Graeme Sawyer.
“It’s huge, to put it mildly,” he said. “The biggest toads are usually females but this one was a rampant male ... I would hate to meet his big sister.”



Frogwatch, which is dedicated to wiping out a toxic toad species that has killed countless Australian animals, picked up the 15-inch-long cane toad during a raid on a pond outside the northern city of Darwin late Monday.
Cane toads were imported from South America during the 1930s in a failed attempt to control beetles on Australia’s northern sugar cane plantations. The poisonous toads have proven fatal to Australia’s delicate ecosystems, killing millions of native animals from snakes to the small crocodiles that eat them.
‘Sensational fertilizer’
As part of its so-called “Toad Buster” project, Frogwatch conducts regular raids on local water holes, blinding the toads with bright lights then scooping them up by the dozen.
“We kill them with carbon dioxide gas, stockpile them in a big freezer and then put them through a liquid fertilizer process” that renders the toads nontoxic, Sawyer said.
“It turns out to be sensational fertilizer,” he added.

 

[bettagurl]

aww, look at his cute lil face

 

[sxcsamman]

those stupid animals
lol people introduce them to stop the spread of the cane bettle now the friken thing is taking over aus and theres nothing we can do about it

 

[Red Devil]

I saw this in my newspaper ..only the person was holding it by his feet and the frog was hanging upside down.. made me angry to see it like that.. i can amagine that something that heavy had alot of pain being held by his feet.. dangling for the world to see..

 

[guppy]

And now it is fertilizer

 

[*KrAmEr*]

I saw this in my newspaper ..only the person was holding it by his feet and the frog was hanging upside down.. made me angry to see it like that.. i can amagine that something that heavy had alot of pain being held by his feet.. dangling for the world to see..

LOL

People here are encouraged to kill them, Ive heard people play golf with them and other crazy stuff. But they haven't spread to W.A. just yet so I wouldn't know.

There a pest just like rats or cockroaches.

 

[Red Devil]

LOL

People here are encouraged to kill them, Ive heard people play golf with them and other crazy stuff. But they haven't spread to W.A. just yet so I wouldn't know.

There a pest just like rats or cockroaches.

if you say so.. everyone has a right to their opinion.. but everything should be treated humanely....