{"id":113811,"date":"2024-08-13T23:43:16","date_gmt":"2024-08-13T23:43:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2024\/08\/13\/nasty-tasting-cane-toads-teach-crocodiles-a-lifesaving-lesson\/"},"modified":"2024-08-13T23:43:16","modified_gmt":"2024-08-13T23:43:16","slug":"nasty-tasting-cane-toads-teach-crocodiles-a-lifesaving-lesson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2024\/08\/13\/nasty-tasting-cane-toads-teach-crocodiles-a-lifesaving-lesson\/","title":{"rendered":"Nasty-tasting cane toads teach crocodiles a lifesaving lesson"},"content":{"rendered":"
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All it takes is one miserable night after a bad dinner or drink to make humans avoid an ingredient for life. To teach freshwater crocodiles in Australia to avoid a lethally poisonous toad, all it takes is one very, very nasty toad butt.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Freshwater crocodiles who chowed down on lithium chloride-laced carcasses of invasive cane toads were far less likely to eat live toads<\/a> when the poisonous amphibians came hopping along. The result could help prevent the predator die-offs that occur as cane toads make their way across the Australian continent, researchers report August 14 in Proceedings of the Royal Society B<\/em>.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n