Who's Eating Who?

This week we have been conducting some research around what cane toads eat in a suburban Brisbane environment. It turns out that they can eat almost anything that fits into their mouths. No wonder they are so successful at adapting to the Australian environment. We have organised the information that we have found into a partial food web, just showing the predators and prey of the cane toad.

We then did some investigating into the predators and prey of the green tree frog, or Litoria caerulea, to see how much competition is between them. It looks like they have very similar dietary requirements.

Now we have to think about how we can use this information to inform our habitat design.

Information Sources:
Australian Museum - Cane Toads
Queensland Government – Cane Toads Information

Australian Museum