Toxic Toads Wiping Out Australian Crocodiles
I’ve always heard that licking toads can cause psychoactive effects, but I didn’t know they were fatal to crocodiles. According to Professor Keith Christian, of Charles Darwin University, “A recent survey on the Victoria river showed that in a one-year period as many as 77 per cent of the crocodiles have died as a result of eating cane toads.”
Via: The Independent
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