How to Use cane toad in a Sentence

cane toad

noun

• For example, the famous case of cane toads, brought to Australia to try to control insects munching on sugarcane crops, quickly became an-ever-expanding menace in their own right.
  — Popular Science, 29 Feb. 2024
• The record was set in March 1991 by a cane toad owned by a Swedish man.
  — Aina J. Khan, NBC News, 20 Jan. 2023
• The cane toad may be the poster animal for invasive species.
  — John Timmer, Wired, 29 Aug. 2021
• The dangerous cane toad lacks these crests, and the glands on its head are long and triangular shaped, UF Wildlife says.
  — Tiffini Theisen, orlandosentinel.com, 3 Apr. 2019
• But things went downhill fast after cane toads were introduced in the 1930s.
  — Matt Warren, Science | AAAS, 5 June 2018
• Elsewhere in the lab sat a reminder of the impact humans have already had on Mother Nature: the cane toad.
  — Frances Vinall, Washington Post, 26 May 2022
• Today, the cane toad can be found all over northern Australia and south Florida.
  — Amanda Foreman, WSJ, 1 Nov. 2018
• Such cannibalism among cane toads had not been observed in the toad’s native range.
  — New York Times, 15 Mar. 2022
• Today, the two hundred million cane toads in Australia constitute a pest far worse than the one they were meant to control.
  — Steven Strogatz, The New Yorker, 8 Aug. 2011
• Invasive species like foxes, wild cats, pigs, and cane toads also show up in photos.
  — Erika Page, The Christian Science Monitor, 12 June 2023
• Now, Daniel Florance from the University of Sydney has found a clever way of corralling the cane toad invasion.
  — Ed Yong, Discover Magazine, 22 Feb. 2011
• In honor of Steve Irwin’s birthday on Feb. 22, animal demos will include the boa, opossum and cane toad.
  — courant.com, 10 Feb. 2022
• The kids are used to it, in addition to their interactions with a one-eyed cane toad named Pirate and a bearded dragon named Tad, among others.
  — Jane Stueckemann, Houston Chronicle, 12 July 2019
• In Australia, native snakes evolved resistance to the toxins of invasive cane toads, and ate fewer toads.
  — Max G. Levy, WIRED, 18 Aug. 2023
• From lionfish to pythons to cane toads, there are plenty of invasive species horror stories.
  — Sara Kiley Watson, Popular Science, 25 Mar. 2020
• The Australian cane toad's population density is about 10 times that of their native range.
  — John Timmer, Wired, 29 Aug. 2021
• Australian cane toad tadpoles have been observed feeding on their fellow cane toad offspring.
  — John Timmer, Wired, 29 Aug. 2021
• Australia's battle with the formidable cane toad is so legendary; it was even referenced in a Simpson's episode.
  — Discover Magazine, 29 June 2010
• But as the examples of the mongoose and cane toad illustrate, biological control can go awry.
  — Christina Nunez, National Geographic, 5 June 2019
• Researchers suspected that some toads in western Ecuador were not actually Mesoamerican cane toads, the study said.
  — Aspen Pflughoeft, Miami Herald, 26 Feb. 2024
• The bufo toad, also known as the cane toad, is a common summer sight in South Florida, but experts in the area believe the species is returning in larger numbers than in previous years.
  — Kyla Guilfoil, ABC News, 30 June 2022
• By 2003, the Australian government moved an insurance population of quolls to offshore islands free of cane toads.
  — Ashley Braun, Longreads, 24 Oct. 2019
• One of Frankenberg’s offshoot projects is an attempt to edit the DNA of native animals to develop resistance to cane toad poison.
  — Frances Vinall, Washington Post, 26 May 2022
• Australia has no natural predators or diseases that can control cane toad numbers.
  — Will Sullivan, Smithsonian Magazine, 23 Jan. 2023
• Poisonous cane toads, for example, were brought to Kayangel Atoll in Palau to reduce monitor lizards’ predation on livestock.
  — Marion Renault, New York Times, 15 May 2020
• One menace is cane toads, a North American poisonous amphibian introduced to Australia in the 1930s by farmers as pest control for sugar cane crops.
  — Ben Panko, Smithsonian, 12 Sep. 2017
• But cane toads proved to be disastrously voracious, eating anything from honeybees to dog food.
  — Sarah Lazarus, CNN, 26 Dec. 2019
• In the species' native South American habitat, cane toad tadpoles have previously been observed eating their peers.
  — Elizabeth Gamillo, Smithsonian Magazine, 2 Sep. 2021
• Survival of the feces: Does a nematode lungworm adaptively manipulate the behavior of its cane toad host?
  — Christie Wilcox, Discover Magazine, 28 Apr. 2018
• In some cases, discerning between two types of similar-looking creatures is important, as in the case of Australia’s invasive cane toad.
  — National Geographic, 23 Jan. 2020

Last Updated: 26 Oct 2024