Username Taken wrote: ↑Sat Jan 21, 2023 4:21 pm

Bin chickens to the rescue!
Seems as if the good old Ibis has developed a stress & clean technique for eating cane toads;
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-11-23/ ... /101683596

Yobbo wrote: ↑Mon Jan 23, 2023 5:38 am

Username Taken wrote: ↑Sat Jan 21, 2023 4:21 pm

Bin chickens to the rescue!
Seems as if the good old Ibis has developed a stress & clean technique for eating cane toads;
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-11-23/ ... /101683596

But wait, there's more

Eat your heart out: native water rats have worked out how to safely eat cane toads
Every morning we discovered up to five new dead toads with small, near-identical incisions down their chest in just a five-metre stretch of creek. What was using almost surgical precision to attack these toads?

Post-mortem analysis showed that in larger toads the heart and liver had been removed, and the gall bladder (which contains toxic bile salts) neatly moved outside the chest cavity. In medium-sized toads, besides the removal of the heart and liver, one or both back legs had been stripped of their toxic skin and the muscle also eaten.
https://theconversation.com/eat-your-he ... ads-123986

Darwin would be proud.