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Weigh Of 2 Pounds Toadzilla Graeme Sawyer

April 22, 2014 by  

Weigh Of 2 Pounds Toadzilla Graeme Sawyer, It’s a rampant monster toad the size of a dog (assuming that dog is itself very small; say, about the size of a toad.) Anyway, click to make even bigger.
A ‘monster’ cane toad the size of a small dog has been captured.

An environmental ‘caged’ the toxic beast which is blamed for killing countless animals since being introduced to Australia in the 1930s.

The volunteer-run organization, Frogwatch, picked up the 40-centimeter-long (15-inch-long) cane toad during a raid on a pond outside the northern city of Darwin late Monday.

With a body the size of a football and weighing nearly 1 kilogram (2 pounds), the ‘monster toad’ is among the largest specimens ever captured in Australia, according to Frogwatch coordinator Graeme Sawyer.

‘It’s huge, to put it mildly,’ he said. ‘The biggest toads are usually females but this one was a rampant male … I would hate to meet his big sister.’

Cane toads were imported from South America during the 1930s in a failed attempt to control beetles on Australia’s northern sugar cane plantations.

The poisonous toads have proven fatal to Australia’s delicate ecosystems, killing millions of native animals from snakes to the small crocodiles that eat them.

As part of its so-called ‘Toad Buster’ project, Frogwatch conducts regular raids on local water holes, blinding the toads with bright lights then scooping them up by the dozen.

‘We kill them with carbon dioxide gas, stockpile them in a big freezer and then put them through a liquid fertilizer process that renders the toads nontoxic,’ Sawyer said.

‘It turns out to be sensational fertilizer,’ he added.

2 Pounds Toadzilla Graeme Sawyer

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