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Common name and scientific name and general description.

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Common name and scientific name and general description.

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Common name- Cane toad or bufo
Scientific name- Rhinella marina

The cane toad body is usually 4-9 inches in size and is a tan, reddish-brown to grayish-brown in color

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The Cane toads are native to the Amazon basin in South America and north to the lower Rio Grande Valley in southern Texas. A little bit of the population came from parts of Australia

The Toads came to Florida to control agricultural pest in sugar cane in the 1930s and 1940s

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Cain toads live in sand dunes and coastal grasslands all the way to rainforests and mangroves. They can live almost anywhere they are introduced.

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Cane toads are native to the Amazon River in South America and to parts of Central America and even parts of Mexico and the Dominican Republic.

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In the 1950s, a pet importer released 100 cane toads. We dont know whether it was on purpose or an accident, but they were released at the Miami airport. Cane toads have since spread through much of south and central Florida.

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The bring predators of the cane toad to Florida:
There would be a predator now for the can toad but now there is a new species involved that may cause problems

Human interactions like the trapping them
Easier to control just way more tedious and hard to know when they killed them all

Poisoning/getting rid of their eggs
Leads to decrease in population, hard to locate eggs and poisoning could lead to other issues

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There skin is poisonous killing lots of helpful organism like native frogs

No predators that eat it cause an increase in their population and a decrease in native frogs population do to competition

They are not only harmful to us but are deadly to pets with a little bit of there poison it can kill a small animals

These all lead to a unbalanced ecosystem and if this continues it could be very bad

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THE BEST METHOD FOR GETTING RID OF THE CANE TOADS

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THE BEST METHOD FOR GETTING RID OF THE CANE TOADS

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We think the best method is getting another predator. If they are really careful with it and do research on how to get the predators back after they take down the cane toad population, things will be back to normal in the ecosystem.

To put this plan into action you need a predator that is very distinct and easy to kill and you need trackers on all of the predators to see where they have been and see if they laid any eggs to destroy and capture them

We probably need government permission to bring a foreign animal into the U.S.

The success of the situation can be measure by the decrease in cane toads.

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Map of Cane Toads origin and distribution 

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Map of Cane Toads origin and distribution 

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(There is not many predators that are in this the only one are snakes or hawks but they do not usually eat them cause of their poisonous skin)

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This food web causes the ecosystem to become unbalanced as  very few eat the cane toad, but it is still eating lots of the small bugs, insects, and rodents. This causes them to have a high fitness and reproduce at a faster rate which is bad for the enviornment

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https://myfwc.com/wildlifehabitats/profiles/amphibians/cane-toad/#:~:text=Cane%20toads%20are%20currently%20found,of%20the%20I%2D4%20corridor.

https://education.nationalgeographic.org/resource/cane-toads/#

https://www.aquariumofpacific.org/onlinelearningcenter/species/cane_toad/#:~:text=Guinea%2C%20and%20Australia.-,In%20their%20natural%20environments%20these%20toads%20live%20in%20sand%20dunes,toads%20are%20large%20squat%20amphibians.

https://edis.ifas.ufl.edu/publication/UW432

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In their natural environments these toads live in sand dunes and coastal grasslands to the margins of rain forests and mangroves.
Caimans, certain snakes and eels hunt cane toads most of these are not in Florida.
Cane toads are omnivores and eat a variety of vegetation, insects, small birds, other toads or frogs, lizards, small mammals, and snakes.
Limited conditions for these frogs are wet lands like the Everglades their skin if absorbing to much water could kill them.