🐸Did you guys guess the cane toad in yesterdays "Weekly What Am I"?? 🐸Let's learn about biocontrol, biodiversity threats and range expansion!
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@AlanComerford-id1ywАй бұрын
Great presentation. Learnt heaps. Thanks.
@meganswildscienceАй бұрын
Glad you enjoyed it! Thanks for watching 😊
@joshjephillipsАй бұрын
Great video! I liked learning the history too!
@meganswildscienceАй бұрын
So glad you enjoyed it! The crazy thing about the history story is that they didn't actually do any research on environmental impacts or whether the toads actually eat the beetles before releasing them! 🫣
@indridcold8433Ай бұрын
It took a special kind of stupid to intentionally introduce an invasive species. However, I am thinking about introducing the emerald tree bore into my neighbour's land patch. The guy never trims his trees.
@meganswildscienceАй бұрын
It was certainly an ill thought out plan, to say the least! Thanks for watching 😊
@indridcold8433Ай бұрын
They look like an untaped source of food! Eat up and enjoy frog legs!
@meganswildscienceАй бұрын
An interesting thought! The real tricky part would be convincing the general public in Australia not to be repulsed by them, I doubt anyone would eat one knowing its a cane toad.. frog legs aren't a normal delicacy here either 🤔
@finsterhund29 күн бұрын
introducing an invasive toad to protect your crops from a native species is just about as selfish and stupid as what America ended up doing to large predators because ranchers didn't want to guard their cattle :(
@meganswildscience29 күн бұрын
It certainly was a fail on many levels. There are ground nesting birds, like the rainbow bee eater, that get pushed out of their nest burrows by toads 😔
@finsterhund29 күн бұрын
@@meganswildscience what a mess. and because of Australia's history being an isolated population of pretty much everything I bet it hits the animals a lot harder than the natural encroachment that happens in larger continents that species there are used to by not being as specialized and such
@meganswildscience29 күн бұрын
Exactly right, a lot was learnt from this. Australia has some of the strictest biosecurity rules in the world now to avoid introducing more invasive species. Some pests still arrive hitch-hiking, but huge efforts are made to remove the threats before they become established.