Toad Media

ABC Rural Report

Original source

Outback NT: Thursday 19 October, 2006

Flowers in the tummies of toads

The Great Toad Muster is currently on at Timber Creek where volunteers are catching cane toads in an effort to slow their entry into WA. But as well as catching them, Karen Rusten is teaching the local schoolkids about the toads. As their first introduction to science, the Timber Creek kids are cutting the toads open and learning about their biology. "I've been doing dissections to show people the inside of toads, point out a few thing that are different between toads and frogs, like toads have a sternum and frogs don't so you can see that. We've found insects and frogs, even barringtonia flowers in their stomachs. Whether the flowers were accidental or on purpose, who knows, but toads have flowers in their tummies."

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