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The cane toad (Rhinella marina), also known as the giant neotropical toad or marine toad, is a large, terrestrial true toad which is native to South and mainland Middle America, but has been introduced to various islands throughout Oceania and the Caribbean, as well as northern Australia. It is a member of the genus Rhinella, but was formerly in the genus Bufo, which includes many different true toad species found throughout Central and South America. The cane toad is a prolific breeder; females lay single-clump spawns with thousands of eggs. Its reproductive success is partly because of opportunistic feeding: it has a diet, unusual among anurans, of both dead and living matter. Adults average 10–15 cm (3.9–5.9 in) in length; the largest recorded specimen weighed 2.65 kg (5.8 lb) with a length of 38 cm (15 in) from snout to vent.
The cane toad is an old species. A fossil toad (specimen UCMP 41159) from the La Venta fauna of the late Miocene of Colombia is indistinguishable from modern cane toads from northern South America. It was discovered in a floodplain deposit, which suggests the R. marina habitat preferences have always been for open areas.
Actors: Leanne Farmiloe (producer), Leanne Farmiloe (editor), Leanne Farmiloe (director), Leanne Farmiloe (composer), Leanne Farmiloe (writer), Dave Evans (actor), John Spencer (actor), Tory Richards (actor), Ramez Khalil (actor), Tony Gill (actor), John Gallagher (actor),
Plot: Scotch Thistle and Cane Toad are sick of being classified as 'Weeds and Pests', so they ask wise old Platypus for advice. She advises them to travel to Canberra to ask Julia Gillard to reclassify them as 'desirable' species. However Julia's suggested solution (containing them in detention centres for processing as export products) does not appeal to them, so they head back home. Unfortunately, when they get there, a goat looking for the symposium on Weeds and Pests steps on Cane Toad and eats Thistle. But all ends well when they end up on a cloud in Heaven.
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