(1) Cane toads eat crawling things.

2. Surprise! It didn't work! Cane beetles continued to eat the cane, and cane toads are proceeding to eat just about everything else: Australia's native insects, amphibians, bottle caps, cigarette butts, and even some birds.

WHACK-A-TOAD
Population control
has been left to the discretion of individuals.

KOOKABURRA KILLER? The cane toad has poison glands situated on its shoulders. When a predator tries to swallow a cane toad, the glands ooze a potent toxin. The predator's heart begins to race - it begins to drool uncontrollably - it finds it hard to breathe - rather like a Ricky Martin concert. Both domestic and native animals can die in as little as 15 minutes. Wildlife experts increasingly find kookaburras, a native frog-eating bird, dead in the wild with cane toads still lodged in their gullets. Is it a threat to man? "I wouldn't eat one headfirst," an authority cautions.