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Phred wrote:
> In article <771Te.24000$FA3.12582@news-server.bigpond.net.au>, "Don H" <donlhumphries@bigpond.com> wrote:
> 
>>Seems an effective method of catching cane toads has been invented; uses
>>ultraviolet black lights (which also attract insects) - see yesterday's
>>"Herald Sun" (pg.13).   "As part of the Toad Buster project, researchers
>>caught more than 200 cane toads in three weeks at Ringwood Station, 120km
>>south of Darwin".
> 
> 
> Jesus mate, get real!  They say there are already millions of the 
> things in the NT.  Catching 10/night is going to have an impact?
> 
> I could get that many each night looking around the front yard with a 
> torch.  Friends near here (but on the coast) catch that many a night 
> in a small hole they dug under their yard light.  (I haven't seen that 
> hole yet, but it was too small for a kookaburra to fly out of when the 
> stupid bird got into it for some reason -- fortunately found in time.)
> 
> Frankly, I think the whole toad hysteria is a bit of a wank.  They've 
> been around here for 70 years now, and nothing has been wiped out by 
> them.
> 
> As a mate commented the other day about CSIRO research into the 
> "problem" -- no one gave a stuff while they were only in Qld.  Now 
> that they've got into States south and west it seems the sky's 
> falling in and research money flows.
> 
> Cheers, Phred.
> 

And now that they have been here so long, they have adapted into the aussie 
landscape. So it's now up to all those other animals around to learn to not 
eat them.