Despite their warty-looking skin, both frogs and toads do not cause warts.
I bit my lip, aware that the words popping out of my mouth resembled ugly, poisonous toads.
The toads were imported from South America to eradicate scarab beetles that were feasting on sugar cane crops.
Cane toads were introduced to Australia in 1935 with the expectation that they would protect farmers' crops by eating harmful insects.
Every February since 1940 I have found myself thinking that this time winter is going to be permanent. But Persephone, like the toads, always rises from the dead at about the same moment.
This wet area also attracts frogs, toads and salamanders.
But how were cane toads gifted with those traits in the first place?
We have tried occasionally to buy toads at bargain prices with results that have been chronicled in past reports.
The door opened, and he saw a big, fat toad sitting there, surrounded by a large number of little toads. The fat toad asked what he wanted.
Scientists can't predict earthquakes. But toads might be able to.
Secondly, a massive group of volunteers could have success trapping and destroying toads.
A possible source of this myth is that some toads have poison glands that make humans break out in a rash that looks like warts.
The 31 who had been introduced to cane toads "survived up to five times longer than 'toad-naïve' quolls, " Shine and his colleagues wrote in the April 13 issue of the Journal of Applied Ecology.
Early eradication methods included hitting the toads with golf clubs or cricket bats.
Third, using the virus is a bad idea because it could have terrible consequences for cane toads in their original habitat in Central and South America.
A group of toads were hopping about on the moor.
In the previous three years, she had watched the toads increase in number with the waxing of the moon.
Toads and amphibians are very sensitive to changes in environmentalchemistry and I think these gases and charged particles could have beendetected by the toads.
But I am aware that many people do not like reptiles or amphibians, and I am not suggesting that in order to enjoy the spring you have to take an interest in toads.
Now some scientists are trying to help quolls, and maybe other species, by teaching them that cane toads are not food and should be avoided.
Cane toads are seemingly innocuous enough.
Professor Susan Evans, of University College London, who identified it, said: "This frog is a relative of today's horned toads.
Cane toads can easily be caught in simple traps and can even be captured by hand.
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