r3ader Posted March 27, 2007 Share Posted March 27, 2007 DARWIN, Australia - An environmental group said Tuesday it had captured a "monster" toad the size of a small dog. ADVERTISEMENT With a body the size of a football and weighing nearly 2 pounds, the toad is among the largest specimens ever captured in Australia, according to Frogwatch coordinator Graeme Sawyer. "It's huge, to put it mildly," he said. "The biggest toads are usually females but this one was a rampant male ... I would hate to meet his big sister." Frogwatch, which is dedicated to wiping out a toxic toad species that has killed countless Australian animals, picked up the 15-inch-long cane toad during a raid on a pond outside the northern city of Darwin late Monday. Cane toads were imported from South America during the 1930s in a failed attempt to control beetles on Australia's northern sugar cane plantations. The poisonous toads have proven fatal to Australia's delicate ecosystems, killing millions of native animals from snakes to the small crocodiles that eat them. As part of its so-called "Toad Buster" project, Frogwatch conducts regular raids on local water holes, blinding the toads with bright lights then scooping them up by the dozen. "We kill them with carbon dioxide gas, stockpile them in a big freezer and then put them through a liquid fertilizer process" that renders the toads nontoxic, Sawyer said. "It turns out to be sensational fertilizer," he added. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest R@ndomH3ro Posted March 27, 2007 Share Posted March 27, 2007 FRY IT UP!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shaolinmasta Posted March 27, 2007 Share Posted March 27, 2007 Damn Toads Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Some1 Posted March 27, 2007 Share Posted March 27, 2007 Mauler gotta get on this youre slippin... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Seffiks Posted March 27, 2007 Share Posted March 27, 2007 thats not a monster toad i see them all the time at my local park in the states Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
J B Suspecto Posted March 27, 2007 Share Posted March 27, 2007 Some places in QLD you can drive down the road and hear them pop as you roll over them. Sometimes as many as a few pops a second! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deterrent Posted March 27, 2007 Share Posted March 27, 2007 I've seen bigger frogs than that in american zoos and in the wild in Wisconsin. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
smokee Posted March 27, 2007 Share Posted March 27, 2007 haha i saw this on CNN.... i once saw a gecko the size of a small cat in thailand... kind of like this toad Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mauler5150 Posted March 27, 2007 Share Posted March 27, 2007 Slippin, haha. I was in the shower!! But that is one big fucken toad!! Almost Battletoad quality!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SUR X3 Posted March 27, 2007 Share Posted March 27, 2007 Battletoads arcade was actually a pretty gruesome game. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cold Milk Cup [pt. 2] Posted March 27, 2007 Share Posted March 27, 2007 15 inches? That's like...an eighth of the size of my cock. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
El Mamerro Posted March 27, 2007 Share Posted March 27, 2007 I can't recommend this movie enough. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mauler5150 Posted March 27, 2007 Share Posted March 27, 2007 I think cane toads are only big in the NT and Qld. I have never seen them in WA. In Cairns though I went into my mates garden to hang a piss at dusk, and you should have heard how loud these things are! And there were heaps of them movign thru the bushes and shit I was pissing on. Seemed really freaky in the drunken state I was in. I want Seffiks to go and catch one of the monsters hear his house, and I guarantee they are nowhere near that big. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Some1 Posted March 27, 2007 Share Posted March 27, 2007 That would be so much fun to sit in youre backyard redneck style with a 40 of bud diesel and a .22 cal rifle and just blow them away from your patio... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deterrent Posted March 27, 2007 Share Posted March 27, 2007 ;5282159']15 inches? That's like...an eighth of the size of my cock. WORD< i'm feeling this! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Drue_Down Posted March 27, 2007 Share Posted March 27, 2007 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rushawn wuan Posted March 27, 2007 Share Posted March 27, 2007 i just had a dream i found a toad 3 times as big as that one and i was taking pictures next to it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EGG Posted March 27, 2007 Share Posted March 27, 2007 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
papa_dukes Posted March 27, 2007 Share Posted March 27, 2007 pissah i knew they would find it i fed it some dust Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rokstar Posted March 27, 2007 Share Posted March 27, 2007 That is fucking awesome. I wanna put him on a leash and walk him. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
groyn shmoyn Posted March 27, 2007 Share Posted March 27, 2007 i thought the toad race and the human race made amends... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cellphone Posted March 27, 2007 Share Posted March 27, 2007 is he wearing a sweater or is that the hair on his arms? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SEANCONNERY Posted March 27, 2007 Share Posted March 27, 2007 Frog legs are good as hell with ranch dressing, fried of course Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
X22 Posted March 27, 2007 Share Posted March 27, 2007 throw it up high in the sky and watch it bounce. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
delonemonkey Posted March 27, 2007 Share Posted March 27, 2007 is he wearing a sweater or is that the hair on his arms? well i can see the sleeve of his shirt ending before his elbow so i am thinking its hair but im really hoping its not also you can see a watch on his left arm.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Reuben Kinkaid Posted March 27, 2007 Share Posted March 27, 2007 "We kill them with carbon dioxide gas, stockpile them in a big freezer and then put them through a liquid fertilizer process" that renders the toads nontoxic, Sawyer said. "It turns out to be sensational fertilizer," he added. Ummmmm what? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
InnerCityRebel Posted March 27, 2007 Share Posted March 27, 2007 hmmm toad legs Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stunt double Posted March 27, 2007 Share Posted March 27, 2007 cane toads are fuckin crazy, i get them all around my house in summertime. i have lost count of how many i have run over. they are more rampant the further north you go. and yeah to whoever mentioned it, that guy has some seriously grizzled arm hair, rad. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
groyn shmoyn Posted March 27, 2007 Share Posted March 27, 2007 i heard a long time ago that if you put a frog in gradually boiling water that it will sit in the pot and let itself simmer and die... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnny ballbags Posted March 28, 2007 Share Posted March 28, 2007 these shits eat mice..... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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