The wicked risks of biosecurity: Invasive species in Australia
Invasive species have the potential to damage our economy, change our way of life and impact our wellbeing.
Plants & Animals
Feb 18, 2020
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News tagged with cane toads
A study on tropical fish sheds light on species invasions
Biodiversity, i.e., the variety of life forms on Earth, is in great danger. Human-driven climate change and intensive land use are altering ecosystems, and globalisation facilitates the transport of non-native species into ...
Ecology
Oct 08, 2019
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Eat your heart out: Native water rats have worked out how to safely eat cane toads
Australia's water rats, or Rakali, are one of Australia's beautiful but lesser-known native rodents. And these intelligent, semi-aquatic rats have revealed another talent: they are one of the only Australian mammals to safely ...
Plants & Animals
Sep 23, 2019
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New research finds cane toads use poison as a last resort
Cane toads are exhausted by releasing their deadly toxin and will go to great lengths not to release it. They far prefer to run or freeze when a predator approaches.
Ecology
May 16, 2019
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What is a waterless barrier and how could it slow cane toads?
A federal parliamentary inquiry into stopping cane toads' relentless march across Australia has proposed creating "waterless barriers" in the semi-arid land between Western Australia's Kimberley and Pilbara regions.
Plants & Animals
Mar 28, 2019
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Cane toads: What they do in the shadows
Cane toads are picking up some shady habits, according to a new study co-authored by a Macquarie University researcher.
Plants & Animals
Jan 21, 2019
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Vital Signs: The power of not being too clear
Incentives, in one form or other, are central to our lives.
Economics & Business
Jan 18, 2019
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Scientists crack genetic code of cane toad
A group of scientists from UNSW Sydney, the University of Sydney, Deakin University, Portugal and Brazil have unlocked the DNA of the cane toad, a poisonous amphibian that is a threat to many native Australian species. The ...
Plants & Animals
Sep 19, 2018
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Toxic toad invasion puts Madagascar's predators at risk, genetic evidence confirms
The recent introduction of the common Asian toad to Madagascar has led to fears that the toxic amphibian could wreak havoc on the island's already severely threatened fauna. Now, researchers report genetic evidence in the ...
Plants & Animals
Jun 04, 2018
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Bold lizards of all sizes have higher mating success
Boldness correlates with the mating success, but not body size or sex, of yellow-spotted monitor lizards roaming the remote Oombulgurri floodplains of tropical Western Australia, ecologists report in the Ecological Society ...
Ecology
May 24, 2018
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