Toxic toads killing Aussie crocs
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Australia’s toxic cane toads are threatening Australia’s Northern Territory freshwater crocodile population, Bloomberg has reported Aussie scientists as saying. The poisonous toads are deadly when eaten by the crocodiles, which grow at a slower pace than their saltwater counterparts, according to Professor Keith Christian of Charles Darwin University. In some waterways, their numbers have been cut in half.
The crocodiles are a “really long-lived species that take a long time to mature before they are reproductive,'” Christian said in a statement. “Populations can’t really withstand year after year of high mortality.”
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