Ducks would actually eat the bugs and leave the sugar cane alone. Ducks can combat locust swarms. The world needs more ducks.

@DBT1007

Ай бұрын

local ducks to be exact. and some duck species can only eat plants and small insects. some ducks, can eat snails and stuff.

@ricardoxavier827

12 күн бұрын

Honey badger eats poison snakes...

@ricardoxavier827

12 күн бұрын

Australia needs a new invader...

Terrific episode about invasive species and cane toads. Thank you for visiting us in Florida, and including Toad Busters & our founder Jeannine Tilford. We appreciate you and the good work you do on Fascinating Fails!

@pbsterra

Ай бұрын

Thank you for having us!

@patrickfitzgerald2861

Ай бұрын

And the truth is they are failing completely. What is your state government doing about this?

@FusionDeveloper

16 күн бұрын

If only I could have all the cane toads to myself... I love how they are the "tank" of all toad species.

@onyxianna

12 күн бұрын

I would love to work for you. If I could afford it, I'd even travel the 15 hours back and forth between home and you to do so. I love protecting native species, and this seems like one of the first good ideas regarding cane toads I have seen in a while. It seems actually feasible.

If there's something strange, in the poisoned woods, who ya gonna call? TOAD BUSTERS!

“Nature’s Most Successful Failure” will be the title of my memoir.

@eljanrimsa5843

Ай бұрын

How many species on how many continents have you driven to extinction so far?

My girlfriend's dog was killed by a cane toad. She knew what it was and grabbed the dog and drove to the vet just a mile away. The dog was dead before she got halfway there.

@IanPendleton-gh6ox

Ай бұрын

So sorry to hear about that. I've lost my own pet recently, so my heart goes out to you.

Word is that some white ibis have been seen eating them. The ibis picks one up and smack them around until the toads glands are empty, then they rinse off the toad in water.

@raclark2730

Ай бұрын

Huh found a dead toad in the water the other day just so happens Ibis frequent the spot.

@Devo491

Ай бұрын

In Australia, the crows have learned to flip them over and eat the underside.

Here in Queensland Australia it's standard to make high school students bring their own cane toads into biology class for dissection.

It's eerie how those toxic toads have been able to destroy Australia's ecosystem. Even their eggs were killing fish & everything else even crocs. Only rats that can flip them over to eat their abdomin can kill these sucker's. It's such a out of control situation.

@PhilthySteel

Ай бұрын

Theres a bird thats figured out which bit to eat too mate, its just nature is too slow to react to an invasion like cane toads.

@sten4982

Ай бұрын

Our meat ants take care of them as well. Very bitey ants those things.

Invasion of the Clever Humans: Nature's Most Successful Failure. I felt that would make a good follow up video.

@franceshorton918

Ай бұрын

I had the same thought! WE are the extra carbon the world needs to get rid of. A sad reality. And 9 billion of us by 2050. It's unsustainable.

Its funny, my only frame of reference for the toad problem and even learning what an invasive specks was is from an episode of the Simpsons when Bart brings over the frog which spreads quickly. Another excellent episode which was not only informative, but fun and funny to watch with all the creative blurbs and fascinating discussions.

Back in the days of VHS the 1988 documentary "Cane Toads: An Unnatural History" was a cult classic. Shame it's more relevant than ever but this is a delightful update.

I'm missing ideas in the video about how to keep cane toads in check.

@patrickfitzgerald2861

Ай бұрын

There are none.

@raclark2730

Ай бұрын

A golf club and a chainsaw visor for the splatter. There are also some signs of natural predation mostly from birds. There is also a species of water snake that has been observed eating toadpoles. There seems to be less toads and toad spawning in my area and also quite a few sickly and slugish specimens. Could be so form of disease maybe. That's just from my observation, so waiting to see if anyone else can confirm that.

@eljanrimsa5843

Ай бұрын

Not bring them to new ecosystems

@raclark2730

Ай бұрын

@@eljanrimsa5843 It was done when people had a poor understanding of these things. Nobody uses them anymore.

@franceshorton918

Ай бұрын

They're not in New Zealand, thank God. Thank our vigilant Customs and Biological controls at airports and wharves. Thank our cold weather and already polluted, unattractive rivers. The cane toads wouldn't want to be here 😂

Best episode yet! I love this series, it's fresh and really scientifically sound.

Another excellent episode. I knew about the cane toad problem in Australia but hadn't realized they were such a widespread problem in Florida too. I had never heard about iNaturalist before either so I'm glad Dr. Pettorelli mentioned it. Love me some citizen science.

Create super mating sounds that collect toads in a wide area. Let them come instead of going out looking for them.

I love how this lady is describing this frog like a serial killer, providing a full record of the ecological disaster it has caused, and the frog is just sitting there like 👁👄👁

And now we are facing the invasion of the shot hole borer here in Perth, trees both native and nonnative being destroyed 😢

I didn't start out today being interested in invasive toads, but you made them fascinating! Good job!

Thanks Robert, thanks fighting environment dystopian

Girl, how did you even hold a frog? I'd be poisoned if I ever did that. That frog too was scared. 😂 So, glad to have you on the PBS channel. ❤😊.

@S3lkie-Gutz

Ай бұрын

it’s only poisonous if you try to ingest it, not venomous. you’re implying that you’d try to put it in your mouth or something(not saying you are that’s just what it sounds like)

The only good thing about cane toads in Australia, is that they allowed Aussies to become great cricketers 🏏 and golfers 🏌️‍♀️

@dozermc5220

Ай бұрын

Yes, I'd already taken out thousands of toads with a golf club by the time I took my first swing at a golf ball.

Such an informative video! Thank you for shedding light on this.

As we humans build space habitats and colonize the solar system and beyond over the next few thousand years, some advice: be very careful which organisms we bring, and keep Florida people and Rat Fanciers OUT of the decision making process.

@huldu

Ай бұрын

There will never be anything we do that will be "right", it only takes one single person to create a disaster. I'm not just talking about animals and potential colonies, we'll bring pest with us there is no question about it, only a matter of time. You can't blame other animals for being like us ie survivors to the extreme. We're the #1 invasive species no matter where we go.

The natural enemy of the cane toad is the 9 iron. We have found here in Queensland that if you kill one, turn it on it's back and leave them outside. The crows have learnt to flip them and eat their guts without getting poisoned.

great episode! thank you :)

Thanks Dr pettorelli, good work in Oxford

This is NUTS! So thankful for the work Toad Busters does in Florida, holy cow! I bet y'all have saved countless pets 🙏

Thank you.

Very interesting!

WHERE CAN I GET THAT MUG!!!!! it looks so cool! i just found this by chance. very love the information that is given

I have such an irrational fear of frogs & toads.

"cheesy creamy" squirting poison was not what i was expecting to see today. awesome.

I keep saying it but I really love this series. Everything about it is fantastic.

Love the colorful glasses!

Great insights! Learning of our FL over stayed guests 🐸

Asian common toads: *Great, we have our long time rival*

Crows here in Australia have learnt to flip the cane toad over onto its back and eats its stomach..

A small part of me was hoping you would say it was a toadal failure at some point

1:10 Smells Like Toad Spirit

To be fair we humans top that invasive species list by a large margin. I doubt anything really comes close to us and how destructive we are to everything around us including ourselves.

@Cudddlefish

Ай бұрын

Yeah, but we had to invent agriculture and stuff to do that. It takes a lot of smarts and hard work to screw things up as badly as us.

@ryanreedgibson

Ай бұрын

And to be fair, Florida is nothing like Australia or even the rest of the US. More S.O. than anywhere else in the world. The second worse is AR.

@paurushbhatnagar8100

Ай бұрын

You have said the truth. We are biggest invasive species. But about cane toads they are not Nature failure but rather we have made them available to places they never belong. Like we spread rats on the islands they never belong.

@raclark2730

Ай бұрын

Only in the past few centuries, and we have been here for 300 000 years. Less moaning and more change.

@raclark2730

Ай бұрын

@@Cudddlefish Yes well we need to fix that. I don't mind going back to hunter gatherer personally , but its not practical for everyone. So we need to modify agriculture as we know it.

One thing which is not cleared in the video is the disposal method. What you do to these captured toads. Thank you for giving me an answer. P.S. - Please, don't think that if your answer is 'we terminate them', then i would go on giving you lecture on mercy or some other dumb virtue signalling. I just want an answer to my curiosity. [DiowE]

@FusionDeveloper

16 күн бұрын

They can compost them as fertilizer. There are videos on it.

@FusionDeveloper

16 күн бұрын

But they should just give them all to me because I love toads.

Maren's the best!!!

Cool

Palms just chilling

It's a weird transition between speakers at 4 min. It's like suddenly - "Hi! I'm talking now!"

Thanks for acknowledging 3 categories. 2 is oversimplified.

As usual the one thing that is common about invasives spreading is due to human intervention. Even scientists are short sighted and do things without completely understanding the full impact of their actions.

Accurate shot fired: comparing Australia to Florida

There should be a special month that everyone gets out and helps catch them! If humans caused this, we all should chip in and help fix it!

At 5:02, so according to this definition the worst invasive mammal seems to be the human species.

I liked the way Robert sneak himself in to the video. It looked like rap video in reverse.

One animal that isnt native from the land can have a potential to change or destroy

Do they die from the poison if they eat each other?

Apparently my strong suit is watching fly fishing videos, then spending my weekend working on the house and cars.

She talked about uploading pictures and info in the "right app" to get the data to her and other scientists. Could you give us list of those "right apps"? Is iNaturalist one of them?

How are they dispatching those thousands of toads they catch

2:41 yo where's the flash warning 😵‍💫

My neighbor just cut down all his front yard trees due to Emerald Ash Borer. :/ My trees are maple and walnuts.

@PBS Terra That is not a female cane toad. The shown toad “Martha” (0:39) has dark nuptial pads and is 100% a male.

I wonder if the cane toads can be controlled by genetic engineering? It might seem an impossible task to attempt to eliminate millions of toads, but we humand DO have brains and opposable thumbs! I hope scientists in Australia are working on a 'sterility gene' right now. Surely, with a concerted effort from whole communities, we can try?

They make shirts that go all the way down.

The honey badger eats poison snakes... Australia needs a new invader...

But Florida has Meth Gators, we only have Salty crocs and fresh water ones. Meth Gators sound cooler

dangit martha

Please put a flashing lights warning on your videos if you are going to edit it in 😖

What is the natural predator of cane toads in their home habitat?

They are already in south Texas. Haven’t seen any up north yet,just the common American species.

Poisonous? Or toxic?

Can you smoke them? I mean more than once.

Calling all Citizen Naturalists to remote sense!

Yay for iNaturalist!

These toads LOVE cat food!

So who will win in Florida - the toads or the pythons? Or is there another contestant who's not as famous ?

@huldu

Ай бұрын

They should take some notes from England in how to make wildlife go extinct. They used to have a lot of beavers in England, they made them go extinct(there are some projects around to bring them back). Also note that England has *no* large predators because they made them go extinct as well so if anything they know how to solve "problems" by removing them completely.

@victoriaeads6126

Ай бұрын

England is a much smaller territory, the animals you refer to were larger and bred less frequently, and , well, they aren't usually animals humans are inclined to hunt. Intentional strategies are necessary for creatures like cane toads, which can explosively breed, have few natural predators, if any, are nocturnal and sneaky, and hold little interest to humans beyond those who know about them and want to get rid of them.

@raclark2730

Ай бұрын

Bring back snake skin boots.

@lenabreijer1311

Ай бұрын

Climate change, it will end up under water.

@MsAnubisia

Ай бұрын

Don't forget lion fish and tilapia in the Florida waterways!

Questions: Looking at those man-made ponds ... would it be possible to surround the smaller ones with temporary fences in order to trap the young toads after they leave the pond. It would take at least a decade, but could Burmese Pythons in the Florida Everglades be bred to "select" cane toads as prey? Maybe we could eliminate two problems at once.

@bennettfender9927

Ай бұрын

Cane Toads are far too small to be prey for a Burmese Python.

@bobyoung1698

Ай бұрын

@@bennettfender9927 Not the young ones.

@bennettfender9927

Ай бұрын

@@bobyoung1698 Gotcha.

The flashing at 2:41 is awful

Why can't delicious animals act like this...

@agodawg

Ай бұрын

There are a lot of tasty invasive species. I know many weeds that make great salad, lots of different berries and all of our livestock is usually non-native (and sometimes invasive too)

@raclark2730

Ай бұрын

Tilapia, Lion fish, goats , pigs. Dig in 🍽😎

I know they're an accomplished scientist helping the world but I just can't trust someone with so many shortcuts and files on their desktop

So cute. We are the ultimate invasive specie.

Video about Cane Toads. Frog recording used was that of Pacific Chorus Frogs.

@briandoczahm

Ай бұрын

At least it wasn’t a red-tailed Hawk call they use when they show ANY bird or prey, in ANY situation or location! Thanks for the data! I’d expect more from PBS.

@Accentor100

Ай бұрын

@@briandoczahm yes! That's another one that grinds my gear and I agree, I expect better from PBS.

successful failure i didn't know those 2 words could go in the same sentence sounds like i go forward by going backward i'm getting fat so that i can lose weight

Wait... so WHAT does Toad Busters do with all those hundreds of toads they capture every night? Kill them all?

@MZ99698

Ай бұрын

Yes

They killing the toads?

@MZ99698

Ай бұрын

Yes

Brit striking again....

People brought toads because of farms people made and are living better because of ponds people made and love "the human environment", toads are obviously the problem

Extremely toxic as she proceeds to handle it with bare hands

@S3lkie-Gutz

Ай бұрын

poisonous not venomous, don’t put it in your mouth and wash your hands after handling them

@KrytoRift

Ай бұрын

@@S3lkie-Gutz the poison is on the skin. A small cut or wound would allow the toxins to enter the bloodstream We have all had small wounds on our hands that we were aware of

Smoke bufo

Best toad species on earth. Let toads take over the world. Hooray for toads!! (yeah I love Cane Toads, but they aren't in my area. No other toad species can compare to every single attribute they have at every stage of their life).

Are these the guys that have DMT in their gland juice?

Name the specific people who are labeled “scientists” instead of “sugar plantation owners and goons”. Name them if there is evidence.

Leave it to the humans. The planet would do just fine without us.

When you lick a toad, you lick every toad that toad has been with. - Family Guy

GROSS!!! What about radiotagging a 'toxic toad friendly' bait protien for dosing identified breeding poinds? Greed will assure readings above bacground level so that population movement can be mapped. A dose from a CO2 tank could quick-freeze the tadpoles or egg mass for removal or chemical neutering ( and it might also work for Burmese pythons ).

Dr tilford thanks, sorry Florida busted

Robert's a great host!

Toads are great at controlling invasive dogs.

@GGoAwayy

Ай бұрын

Invasive dogs like your mom?

Todal failure

When discussing invasive species, you forgot to mention humans...

Martha is a male!

I wish you had kept it limited to the toad. If you bring other animals into it you need to mention all the groups who need help doing TNR and that particular population control relies on TNR as well as teaching people that the myths surrounding those animals are just that, myths. I know the particulars because that is my field. Bugs are more likely to be the diet than birds unless a bird is sick or injured which means that bird is weak and not strong breeding material. Mice, rats, squirrels are also more likely to be eaten. Dumping pets and human error is the root cause and solutions are not well supported. A myth that ferals after the kitten age cannot be socialized is also untrue. Granted it takes understanding but not that difficult beyond patience and knowledge. Solutions are out there but please stop making one creature a scapegoat in Florida. We lose volunteers upon comments like the “expert opinion ” here. Yes, invasive but not killing much in the way of birds. Reptiles? In some cases but not much as a food source in Florida. Very disappointed here. I am a bird lover, reptile lover, amphibian lover and plant lover. All around nature and conservation, preservation person. 😢 People tend to stop helping when an animal is painted with such a broad brush. Rescue groups have it hard enough. Clarify please. Feeding stations, TNR. Human contributions to problems made clear with the toad…. Please continue on that path. Also the loss of birds to human pollution is what seems to be really the biggest problem with total loss of habitat. Improve habitat and birds, reptiles etc. make a comeback. Hard to survive if you can’t even find drinking water.

@huldu

Ай бұрын

People love to do things as long they don't have to pay the price in any way. You see random people complain about pollution, child labor and so on and then they sit and fiddle with their expensive phones which has parts in it that were created using very questionable means in countries that do not follow the ways of the west world. The second you start to remove something people want/use the outcry start and then they fall back into the old ways again and people simply forget. Media has a few weeks of attention span then everyone moves on to the next thing. Our society is flawed, corrupted and rotten from the rot. It will take some drastic measures to turn our world around but it will happen eventually, mark my words and it will not be pretty. I'm not talking about climate change or anything like that but us people, look at our past, that's who we are and will always be.

@DisasterAstor

Ай бұрын

There may be a huge gap between your expertise and what PBS has done here, but there's also appears to be a disconnect between science communicators and the some of the scientists performing the science. All of that information in your commment was great but it was also dense and difficult to read, especially in the forum it was entered into. Writing for an audience (the public, eductors, and students are all different audiences) is a difficult skill. If your comment was to display your own knowledge then cool! Thanks for the knowledge! But if you really want to make these kinds of things better than they are, as an expert in something, I'm sure you're aware that a chastising KZread comment didn't really make a difference.

@lenabreijer1311

Ай бұрын

All in 15 minutes and understandable by the average American?

commentator: 'invasive species... an example of this is the cat" cats: "you should say that the biggest example of that is the human... a species also specialised in accusing and killing others for committing the very sins that they themselves commit" 😞