FATS Cane Toad study

[Duke]

G'day all. I just received a call from Dr Arthur White tonight. I put my name down to volunteer to help out with looking for cane toads in the Taren Point area in southern Sydney. Looks like I'll be heading out on Wednesday night 8)

Is anyone else involved in the study/round up?

FYI this isn't a toad slaughter, so put your whacking sticks away

 

[ozziepythons]

Thats an interesting location to be searching for them, have many been sighted in the region?

 

[JasonL]

Yeah, as a senior Hobbiton border control officer, I will be there.

 

[JasonL]

Thats an interesting location to be searching for them, have many been sighted in the region?

A small population has taken hold and has been breeding within a small area of the Shire, it is possible that it may spread to a near by N.P. where there is a population of Bell Frogs and other critters they will impact on.

 

[dadaman]

Wow. I didn't know they have reached this far down. Nothing wrong with cane toad whacking.

 

[slim6y]

Perhaps you should read page 18 of last weeks (sept 11) issue of New Scientist....

Let's just say, and I bet JasonL agrees, many of us go so overboard with our pre-determined ideas...

So be open minded..

This was discussed in other threads - the Rick Shine talks... but now it's printed in New Scientist (not just the net) - so someone who is putting in the research hours knows much more than the key jocks from previous threads

 

[redbellybite]

ya get use to them

 

[JasonL]

Well it turned out to be a freezing cold night with low to no expections of finding anything, lucky a few AHS members turned up to show the FATS people how to catch a toad eh?

 

[Duke]

Yep, congrats to Jason for catching the biggest toad of the night! *Thumbs up*

 

[frognut]

But the AHS guys were not there when 15 were caught on the 2nd cane toad muster jason and it was a FATS person (redeye girl) who caught the most on the night.

 

[JasonL]

yeah well, been there, done that... we were all at the pub that night.....