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The length of this little animal cm, with a pointed muzzle and brown spotted fur. When young possums emerge from their mother's pouch, the mother carries them on her back. In order to curb the spread of toads, Australians have come up with various methods, more or less ingenious. For example, a trap is a trap equipped with a portable speaker that reproduces the sound of a toad, which some have likened to the beep on a telephone receiver and others to the hum of a motor.
Researchers at the University of Queensland have developed a bait that can lure toad tadpoles to moible number data their death. People shoot toads with air guns, hit them with hammers, hit them with golf clubs, run over cars, put them in the freezer until they harden, and spray them with a compound called Neutralizes toad venom in seconds and kills them in an hour. An anti-toad detachment was organized. A group called the Kimberley Toad Hunters has suggested that the Australian government place a reward for every toad killed.

The group's motto is: If Everyone Hunts Toads, Soon There Will Be Nobody Hunting Toads! Got interested in toads even before seeing them. Geelong is in southern Victoria, an area that the toads have not yet taken over. But one day at a conference, he was sitting next to a molecular biologist, who told him that despite their best efforts, the toads continued to spread. She noticed this with great distress and regretted that there were no new ways to address it, recalls. Well, I sat down and started thinking. Here's how I reasoned: the toxin is a by-product of the toad's metabolism.
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