A new weapon in the war on invasive toads | Rob Capon | TEDxBrisbane

[ruthnewman]

This has been valuable information for my 14 year son who is doing a project on invasive species but highlighting Cane Toads in Australia specifically. He has done his own field work trial for his project using this fantastic research information. He caught 72 Cane toad tadpoles in 48 hour period in a very small pond on a friends property using a frozen female Cane Toad to attrack the tadpoles. Hopefully just that alone has stopped the progression of Cane Toads by hundreds or thousands.
Thank you.

[gaius_enceladus]

Great stuff!
I saw on a documentary recently that some native species are learning to eat the cane toads by avoiding the most poisonous bits.
That's great to see and presumably they will teach their young to do this as well.

[violetssm]

How Exciting! Makes me want to plan that activity, in my Holiday Itinerary . Fishing is always pleasurable, If you catch a fish or not! But knowing that you've Caught ( who knows how many!?!) of these creatures before they can do any damage/ re-replicating, would be a bonus activity. Good to Know.

[kraxos]

Hopefully they update people on the progress of these traps. I found this clip by accident. Pretty cool how crows have learned to kill cane toads.

[barrydraper]

These invasive cane toads are a huge problem here in the US, more specifically in south Florida. They are killing everything from our native alligators & crocks to family dogs & cats. Hope this new research proves successful.

[flyspraygnet]

Brilliant work all involved! Please supply to NT and north WA very soon !

[karenmiglionico]

I would love to have a tadpole attractor. I live in USA in florida and have a backyard pond with lots of cane toads. They are eating all my good tree frogs and hard to catch.

[ezlow]

Got them west of the range Northern Rivers Nsw Aus. One thing he didn't mention was after approx 4 hrs the trap needs to be removed as the tadpoles send out a chemical that tells others not to enter.

[Bbeff.Baby.]

Wonderful TEDTalk! catch those tadpoles!

[manageselfleadotherspodcast]

There's a plague of toads on the redcliffe peninsula right now after all the rain. Let's get involved.

[Rutyos]

Cane toad traps should be handed out free of charge throughout Australia.
I recently moved to the Sunshine Coast, and I can not find them anywhere. In the meantime I am catching the toads as I find them. Catching the tedpols would be more affective.
Hardvare stores and pool supply stotes shoul sell them as well.

[Undies]

Back when we where kids we where allowed to walk around the yard shooting them with air rifles. Not allowed to do that anymore. But was a great way to get rid of pest and nice target practice in the back yard. Government Nanny state Australia.

[samlawrie]

I love the star trek Borg references !

[joelleWyserPratte]

How do we get the needed material in Florida

[avntdor]

No, no no... Shovel.. Shovel works. A shovel needs to be atleast 40-100 years old and then they get the highest award a shovel can be awarded. "The cane toad bonker"

[djr]

Awesome, where can I get me hands on some bufo tablets?

[victortillamillamonster]

So...hopefully all tadpoles are attracted because if not, the tadpoles that arent attracted would simply continue the natural selection process and start a new generation of tadpoles that aren't attracted to the bait. Still, great tool though but more ideas need to come in to stay one step ahead.

[margaretvandenhul]

I have so many toads in my pond and have caught quite a few of the but it like never ending it has killed 15 of my baby fish this morning and just don’t know what to do anymore

[mr.dr.kaiser]

To say only 100 cane toads being released led to the current situation is in a very technical sense true, but it's pretty misleading... They released over 60, 000 total.

[Beeskneese]

How can I receive one of these canetoad tadpole traps?