0 a large brown toad (= an animal similar to a frog with rougher skin) originally from tropical South America, but sometimes introduced into other places, for example Australia: --
Cane toads are protected by powerful toxins in their skin that can kill predators that try to eat them.
Cane toads are now one of Australia's worst environmental disasters.
Beetles eat sugar cane. Cane toads eat cane beetles.
Some early efforts at biological control agents had disastrous effects, such as South American cane toads in Australia.
Since being introduced into Queensland in the 1930s, cane toads have spread across northern Australia.
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European
May 10, 2021
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Shimmer
cane toad
