the cane toad
the cane toad
Once upon a time, I used to read the encyclopedia before I sleep. One day I was reading “T” and while flipping through the pages, I stumbled upon Toad. It had a huge picture of a Cane Toad in it and I promptly threw the encyclopedia across the room.
Some of you may know that I have a fear of frogs/toads.
With all my resolve, I picked up the encyclopedia to try and look at the picture again. After a few attempts, I managed to look at it. I also read up about these critters.
Turns out they were brought into Australia to control sugar cane pests. The cane toads themselves overpopulated and became pests. Here’s some fast facts about these pests:
- can grow up to 38 centimeters and weight 2 kgs
- can lay up to 20,000 eggs in one breeding session
- 102 were brought into Australia. They now number 200 million!
- they are poisonous. Their poison is classified as Class 1 ( which includes heroin and cocaine )
- if you lick a cane toad, you will get a mild hallucinatory effect for half an hour, then you might die !
- many Australians play sports like toad-cricket or toad-golf.
the size of a cane toad
An Australian classmate of mine told me that cane toads are much more common far from the city. During mating season, the whole road would be swarmed with a toad orgy. It is also this time which he and his friends would drive around, hoping to smash as many as they can.
I hope I don’t see one here in Brisbane.
For more info:
- the dreaded cane toad
- wikipedia ( no , I can’t throw wikipedia across the room )
zomg..The size of the toad is insane!!!
Ewww~~early in the morning read this and it’s really disgusting~~~Cold blooded creature!!
hmm reminds me of when I found out what “tin kai” looked like on discovery channel which pretty much left me scarred for life as i’ll never look at those plates of “kung pao tin kai” I ate the same way ever again lol…
I have a phobia for geckos tho… had a terrible childhood experience with those.. ewwwwwwwww.
omg. tht toad looks so massve.
wait a min. it IS massive. fuiy0o~
eeeeewwwwwwwwww
phoon….. wat the helll????
Psst — he’s giving you the hidden finger.
poor frog…
Eeee. Geli la. Snakes are better.
disgusting and fugly. but ermmm, frogs are delicious. they taste like chicken. tried before?
:P:P
I have no comment about frog. I just don’t get myself involve with them, that’s fine enough. I don’t think I wanted to have them as friend. I don’t konw what I am talking now. A simple comment here took me quite some time to do coz there are so many typo errors. So tired after the event and presentation. Sigh
toads are aliens from another planet.
and no i never saw one in brissy. except the stuffed ones you get at the market at south bank
Toads are cutee…awwwwww….You shld learn to love em…keke