Thursday, September 16, 2010

Clarification on the purpose of our frog pond proposal

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Following on from Vanessa's earlier post Share the love , we felt some clarification was needed as to what exactly the intended purpose ...
Sunday, September 5, 2010

Dinner anyone?

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See the National Geographic Kids website link for details and more pics Not all countries have the same toad issues. Because the toad is ...

Can you draw your own picture of what a cane toad looks like?

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Ben's neighbour Abby, who is 9, drew him this nice little picture, showing a toad in her back garden. Can you draw your own picture of ...
Saturday, September 4, 2010

Making a frog pond model!

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We had a great day on Saturday, making a model frog pond! As with all research and learning of new skills, it took us a fair few hours - 6 w...
Wednesday, September 1, 2010

Frogs and Toads in Aboriginal culture

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How important are frogs to Indigenous Australian culture, and how are they depicted in their artwork? The two images here are by Indigenou...
Tuesday, August 31, 2010

The frog pond begins...

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...and so the pond designing process begins. Based on site suitability (Annie lives in an apartment, Vanessa lives in a rental property), w...
Sunday, August 29, 2010

Share the Love!

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We have discovered that killing toads is not the best solution: not ethically, sustainably or logistically. It seems that Australia will nev...
Tuesday, August 24, 2010

Habits and Habitats

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Habitats and Behaviours Hi again! We were going to conduct an audit in Benny’s backyard to see how many toads and frogs currently inhabit...
Sunday, August 22, 2010

Toads have in-built Earthquake Warning system

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...And another really interesting document from the Australian Geographic website, http://www.australiangeographic.com.au/ , from March 31st...
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Cane Toads found in Western Australia

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I just stumbled across this article on the Australian Geographic website, from the 21st July. Below is what they had to say: Image left: Hu...
Saturday, August 21, 2010

Who's Eating Who?

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This week we have been conducting some research around what cane toads eat in a suburban Brisbane environment. It turns out that they can ea...
Friday, August 20, 2010

The Cycles of Life

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One of the issues that we need to research is how native frogs and toads differ at points throughout the life cycle, as identifying the diff...
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Thursday, August 19, 2010

Frogger - Why did the cane toad cross the road?

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Remember the old computer game "Frogger"? Released in 1981 by Konami and nowadays regarded as a classic, the object of the game wa...

Predators

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There are very few predators of the cane toad in Australia, hence their prolific growth in numbers and spread across the country. There hav...

Can you identify the parts of a frog?

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In order to classify frogs and toads, we must refer to certain external features or characteristics. Many of these are the same for both fro...
Wednesday, August 18, 2010

The cane toad in Australia

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The cane toad ( bufo marinus ) was introduced  to Australia  by the Australian Bureau of Sugar  in 1963 in reaction to the drastic effects o...

The spread of cane toads in Australia

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http://monsoon-frog.blogspot.com/2008/05/cane-toads-advance.html Since the introduction of the cane toad to Australia in 1935, it has ...

Ethics of killing toads

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There is much debate about the best way to rid our communities of toads. In some towns there are large-scale toad musters, whilst other area...

Kill or Cultivate?

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Image care of kimberleypage.com.au There has been much debate over the years of the best way to control our cane toad population. The Aus...
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Tuesday, August 17, 2010

Identifying cane toads

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Did you know?: The cane toad has been nominated by the Invasive Species Specialist Group of the IUCN (The World Conservation Union) as amo...

Uses of the cane toad

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Attempts have been made to make use of dead cane toads, which can number in the thousands and cause hygiene problems. This includes processi...

Identifying cane toad eggs/toadlets

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What to do with cane toads near your frog pond Cane toads are a risk to mature frogs and their tadpoles Remove cane toad eggs from your fr...
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notes on frog pond design

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Get Burke's Backyard's fact sheet for this beauty! Burke's Backyard has a great fact sheet on how to make your o...
Monday, August 16, 2010

Representations of Toads and Frogs in popular culture

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Poor old toads get such a bad wrap. Think of depictions of toads in society, literature, old wives tales. Have you ever seen a toad play ...

In the news: New species of frog discovered

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Asia's tiniest frog has just been discovered on the island of Borneo. When fully grown, it is no bigger than a pea! Read more on the art...
Saturday, August 14, 2010

The Biggest??

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This is a photo of the biggest toad I could find! Can you beat it? See a video at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s_onANXeIPA ...
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Friday, August 13, 2010

Life cycle of frogs and toads

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Here is a small animation we made in our Science tutorial, just brushing up on our iMovie skills. The students will make an animation of the...
Tuesday, August 10, 2010

Frogs of Brisbane and how to identify them: Is it a frog or is it a toad?

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Did you know that there are 49 frogs listed as occurring in the regions surrounding Brisbane? Have you ever seen frogs or toads in your gar...