Sentences with phrase «native frogs»

Some of these native insects actually prefer cane toad tadpoles to the tadpoles of native frogs.

This would make it difficult to use the lungworms to control toads - because if we made the worms more common or more infective, we'd cause problems for native frogs as well.

To see if this would encourage the ants to feed on native frogs as well, Shine's team housed them with cane toads and native species.

Dr. Ligia Pizzatto has been checking this important issue by trying to infect native frogs with the toads» parasite.

So now we know that this parasite is not the answer for toad control - we can't go around killing native frogs just to kill a few toads.

Vendor José Serrano, whose woven bags and cotton t - shirts are branded with images of the Puerto Rican flag, of the island's native frog known as el coquí, said his work was a deliberate reflection of his heritage.

They found native frogs leapt away quickly when bitten by a meat ant, leaving them less than 1 second to latch on.

Unlike young native frogs (which avoid ants), baby toads spend most of their time active by day in exactly the same places that the ants forage; and don't hop away when an ant approaches.

The FATS group has verified identity of the animals, so we can be certain that the «toads» are not just misidentified native frogs.

In terms of collateral damage, tadpole pheromones don't affect native frogs (or any other native animals, so far as we know).

This really suggests that it is risky to start killing «toads» unless you are 100 % confident that the animal in front of you isn't an endangered native frog!

James and his colleagues also analyzed bullfrogs from frog farms in Brazil and several native frog species from Brazil's Atlantic Forest, one of the most amphibian - rich regions in the world.

How do these affect native animals, especially the tadpoles of native frogs?

The environmental watering at Whirlpool Corner helped support the recruitment of native plants, including river red gums, and habitat for native frogs and waterbirds such as spoonbills.

If it can, we may have a real problem — a new type of impact of the toads (infecting native frogs).

When the researchers put cane toad tadpoles, native frog tadpoles, fish, and leeches in water containing scraps of cane toad tissue, they found that most of the native animals died within about a day (and sometimes much faster)-- even when they couldn't touch the tissue directly.

Cane toads produce many more eggs in a clutch than do any of the native frogs, and so a single clutch can result in many thousands of small black tadpoles in a pond.

Ligia's special interest is the relationship between toads, native frogs, and the small lungworms that can infect both types of animals.

The idea was that by measuring calling activity of native frogs, any change in frog numbers due to toad invasion will be obvious.

Lots of Australian scientific researchers have worked with cane toads, because they are very common in the suburbs of many coastal cities and towns, are easy to collect and keep, and there aren't the kind of ethical objections to removing them from the wild, or killing them, as apply to native frogs.

-- and so a lot of native frogs have been killed by mistake — including endangered species — because people have thought they were cane toads.

So, although it was our own research that suggested lungworm parasites could help in controlling toads, we now know that it won't work, and will cause problems for native frogs.

This sounds a bit silly - most people are sure they could tell the difference between a cane toad and a native frog.

TEAM BUFO took cane toads and native frogs to shopping centres around Darwin, and we asked local people which amphibian was which.

The simplest difference is size — cane toads grow much bigger than any native frogs.

But unfortunately, we found out that some native frogs are at risk.

The same is true for our tadpole trapping - the tadpoles of native frogs are repelled by our «bait» (the poison from cane toads) whereas cane toad tadpoles are strongly attracted.

Native frog and toad species, in comparison, are mostly nocturnal and hide in tall grass during the day.

He built a plaza there for residents, populating its gardens with hummingbirds, butterflies and native frogs, called coqui, that are known for their loud mating calls.