Cane toads
Posted by Emily on January 16, 2011
One afternoon we found 3 baby cane toads in Nan and Pop’s backyard and we caught them in the bug net we got at Christmas time. They were about 1cm long.
Baby cane toads are quite cute but they have poison in their glands and they are very ugly when they are an adult. Cane toads are not Australian. They eat our lizards, butterflies, bees and our native frogs. Even though we were pretty certain they were a cane toad we didn’t want to kill them in case they were a native frog so we went up to Fleay’s Fauna Reserve and one of the men told us they were cane toads and he kept the cane toads to put them in the freezer so they would feel like they were hibernating until they died.
This link says how to identify a cane toad and it has this recording of what a cane toad sounds like.
This is information about cane toads from the Australian Museum.
January 19th, 2011 at 11:33 am
Very cool! Are the Cane frogs rare?
Nicole (Berthoud Elementary)
January 19th, 2011 at 12:24 pm
Hi Nicole,
Thank you! Very unfortunatley there’s lots of cane toads and they keep having children and spreading but they are still rare in Sydney.