Cane
toads live on the ground and can travel long distances because
they do not need to live near water.|
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Cane toads are a species, or kind, of South American toad. They were introduced into Queensland in 1935 to eat beetles that were destroying the sugar cane. However, the cane toads cannot jump very high, and as the beetles were mostly too high in the sugar cane for the cane toads to reach them, they had very little effect on the pests. Meanwhile, the cane toads proved to be great survivors and in turn became huge pests themselves.
Cane
toads live on the ground and can travel long distances because
they do not need to live near water.
Cane toads can grow to be 23 centimetres__________.
They can ___________ up to 1.25 kilograms.
They vary in ____________ from dull green to tan.
They are very warty!
They can ___________ for about 15 years.
Female cane toads can lay up to 40 000 eggs in a season.
Cane toads are omnivorous, (say om-niv-or-us) which means they eat almost anything.
Cane toads are poisonous to anything that touches or eats them. The____________ comes from glands on either side of the toad's head. Cats and dogs may die after eating ______________.
Cane toads are a __________ to
native animals and plants because they eat them, and they eat
__________ needed by native animals.
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Cane toads
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