Australian toad the size of a small dog

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In this photo supplied by Frogwatch, Bob Gonion holds a 40 centimeter (15 inch) long cane toad near Darwin, Australia, on Monday, March 26, 2007. Weighing nearly 1 kilogram (2 pounds), the toad is amongst the largest secimens ever captured in Australia. (Frogwatch, HO / AP)

In this photo supplied by Frogwatch, Graeme Sawyer holds a 40cm (15 inch) long cane toad near Darwin, Australia Monday, March 26, 2007. Weighing nearly 1 kilogram (2 pounnds), the toad is amongst the largest secimens ever captured in Australia. (Frogwatch, HO / AP)

DARWIN, Australia -- An environmental group said Tuesday it had captured a "monster" toad the size of a small dog. With a body the size of a football and weighing nearly 2 pounds, the toad is among the largest specimens ever captured in Australia, according to Frogwatch coordinator Graeme Sawyer.

"It's huge, to put it mildly," he said. "The biggest toads are usually females but this one was a rampant male ... I would hate to meet his big sister."

Frogwatch, which is dedicated to wiping out a toxic toad species that has killed countless Australian animals, picked up the 15-inch-long cane toad during a raid on a pond outside the northern city of Darwin late Monday.

Cane toads were imported from South America during the 1930s in a failed attempt to control beetles on Australia's northern sugar cane plantations. The poisonous toads have proven fatal to Australia's delicate ecosystems, killing millions of native animals from snakes to the small crocodiles that eat them.

As part of its so-called "Toad Buster" project, Frogwatch conducts regular raids on local water holes, blinding the toads with bright lights then scooping them up by the dozen.

"We kill them with carbon dioxide gas, stockpile them in a big freezer and then put them through a liquid fertilizer process" that renders the toads nontoxic, Sawyer said.

"It turns out to be sensational fertilizer," he added.

http://timesunion.com/AspStories/storyprin...?StoryID=575492

[dalegg 143]

Global warming

[Lance27 19]

If only it was a frog... mmm frog thighs lol

In this photo supplied by Frogwatch, Bob Gonion holds a 40 centimeter (15 inch) long cane toad near Darwin, Australia, on Monday, March 26, 2007. Weighing nearly 1 kilogram (2 pounds), the toad is amongst the largest secimens ever captured in Australia. (Frogwatch, HO / AP)

In this photo supplied by Frogwatch, Graeme Sawyer holds a 40cm (15 inch) long cane toad near Darwin, Australia Monday, March 26, 2007. Weighing nearly 1 kilogram (2 pounnds), the toad is amongst the largest secimens ever captured in Australia. (Frogwatch, HO / AP)

DARWIN, Australia -- An environmental group said Tuesday it had captured a "monster" toad the size of a small dog. With a body the size of a football and weighing nearly 2 pounds, the toad is among the largest specimens ever captured in Australia, according to Frogwatch coordinator Graeme Sawyer.

"It's huge, to put it mildly," he said. "The biggest toads are usually females but this one was a rampant male ... I would hate to meet his big sister."

Frogwatch, which is dedicated to wiping out a toxic toad species that has killed countless Australian animals, picked up the 15-inch-long cane toad during a raid on a pond outside the northern city of Darwin late Monday.

Cane toads were imported from South America during the 1930s in a failed attempt to control beetles on Australia's northern sugar cane plantations. The poisonous toads have proven fatal to Australia's delicate ecosystems, killing millions of native animals from snakes to the small crocodiles that eat them.

As part of its so-called "Toad Buster" project, Frogwatch conducts regular raids on local water holes, blinding the toads with bright lights then scooping them up by the dozen.

"We kill them with carbon dioxide gas, stockpile them in a big freezer and then put them through a liquid fertilizer process" that renders the toads nontoxic, Sawyer said.

"It turns out to be sensational fertilizer," he added.

http://timesunion.com/AspStories/storyprin...?StoryID=575492

[lucho562 0]

One evil looking creature dude.

[Hilarious Clinton 452]

Looks delicious.

[Heracles 417]

See what happens when you have tight gun control.

[Ban Hammer 13,346]

See what happens when you have tight gun control.

yeah, turn a bunch of teen-agers loose with bb guns and no frog problem

[Heracles 417]

See what happens when you have tight gun control.

yeah, turn a bunch of teen-agers loose with bb guns and no frog problem

They pretty much banned those dowunuder as well. You now need a gun license to participate in paintball there.

Frogs like that cannot be good for the environment or any other species..

Edited March 30, 2007 by Infidel

[Hilarious Clinton 452]

See what happens when you have tight gun control.

yeah, turn a bunch of teen-agers loose with bb guns and no frog problem

Yeah they banned those dowunuder as well. You now need a gun license to participate in paintball there. Frogs like that cannot be good for the environment or other species..

You are joking... right? You need a license to use a paintball gun?

[almaty 19]

wow, that is one big azz frog..........

[Heracles 417]

See what happens when you have tight gun control.

yeah, turn a bunch of teen-agers loose with bb guns and no frog problem

Yeah they banned those dowunuder as well. You now need a gun license to participate in paintball there. Frogs like that cannot be good for the environment or other species..

You are joking... right? You need a license to use a paintball gun?

NO BS... BB guns are banned. You also need to be 18 and carry a firearms license in my home state Victoria to participate in paintball skirmish..

[aussiewench 9]

LOL I came home one day to find one that size sitting on my doorstop when I lived in Queensland, Australia. I almost died of heart failure. Damm ugly things. Poisonous and killing our natural critters

[cmartyn 0]

I would stuff them toads and have them doing stuff like ice skating or playing an instrument. You could sell them to tourists lol.

[Amby 490]

That is a massive toad. Holy &%$#