Sentences with phrase «native tadpoles»

Michael is undoubtedly THE expert on cane toad tadpoles and especially, their effects on native tadpoles and other kinds of animals that encounter them.

The most common victims were native tadpoles, who died when they tried to eat toad eggs.

Competition between toad tadpoles and native tadpoles also may be important, because they eat the same kinds of food.

However, they rarely try to eat live toad tadpoles, so the big poisoning risk to native tadpoles is from toad eggs not toad tadpoles.

In laboratory trials, most native tadpoles will try to eat toad eggs, and die as a result.

Not exact matches

These small Chinese natives, which attract females by belting out quick chirps, dig deep caverns near ponds for shelter and raising tadpoles.

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.

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

While most of the rest of us look at toads on dry land, Michael conducts field and laboratory studies on toad tadpoles, and their interactions with native species.

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.

Aguas» classroom is a living environment designed for project - based learning, featuring a native plant garden and a tadpole and caterpillar habitat.