by Owen Pye Associated Press
SYDNEY – Forget cricket bats, golf clubs and carbon dioxide. Australia has found a new weapon in its war on the dreaded cane toad: cat food.
Researchers with the University of Sydney found that a few tablespoons of cat food left next to ponds in the Northern Territory attracts fierce Australian meat ants, which then attack baby cane toads as they emerge from the water. The results of the study were published in the British Ecological Society's Journal of Applied Ecology this week. Read More: Source/Yahoo.com Cane Toads
Finally, a solution that uses nature instead of baseball bats to combat a man made scurge. These toads were to solve a problem in the 1930's with beetles. As usual, it was a remedy that wasn't too thought out, which left a problem of an overabundance of these poisonous toads. Hope it works.
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