An environmental group said Tuesday it had captured a “monster” toad the size of a small dog. With a body the size of a football and weighing nearly 2 pounds, the toad is among the largest specimens ever captured in Australia.
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.
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19 Responses
What do you call a stupid frog? Dumb Tzefardea.
How do you know which frogs are toxic?
bklynmom Asks:
How do you know which frogs are toxic?
Answer:
Funny – Read the label CAREFULLY!
Funnier – It is speaking gibberish
Funniest – It has a hechsher from Yeshivat Chovevei Torah
Ok that was funny, but folks I know you can do better. Lets have some funny submissions and we will vote for the best. Winner gets to steal the YWEditors afikomin.
GOM
Most (but not all) toxic frogs are very brightly colored. I doubt this huge one is toxic as it was brought into Australia for pest control.
How do you know which frogs are toxic?
Chop them up and put them in your dog food.
This frog is probably not toxic since it looks like a cross between a hippo and a frog!!!!!
GrumpyOldMan – Q: What did the frog say when they took it home? A: Toada Rabba.
What do you call a stupid itchy frog..Dumb,tzefardaya,keenim….ha ha…
I’d rather be looking at the picture of the 205 million $$
chazal tell us pharoh was a midget- imagine this frog in his belly!
what happens to a double parked frog? It gets toad….
To: himmelstein
Why? the $205 million were made by people and are just ordinary coloured papers whereas this frog is true Nifloes Haboira…Don’t you agree?
Oy. are we seeing the best of pop-corn.
how do you know if a frog is toxic? when it passes by other frogs, they “croak”
Well if everyone is done with their comments, I would like to cast my vote:
Winner -Dr levine – “croak” – absolutely brilliant. I am green with envy (sorry).
Eliezer – the dog food line deserves honorable mention because of its timeliness (and cruelty)
I hope we get a chance to do this again soon.
GOM
(For now – a smiling grump)
wat do u call a dumb, wild, itchy, dead, poka dotted, icy-hot, local, blind first born, frog === dum, tzfardeah, kinim, arov, dever, shchin, barad, arbeh, chosech, makas bechoros tiskeh limitzvos raboisai for being misameach aleh yidisheh kinderlach and by the way dont forget to say a borei pre hadomo on the corny ones
G.O.M.
I humbly accept your nomination as winner
forget the YWeditor Afikomim / forget the YW magnets – I want a YW hat
🙂
md(but not a doctor)levine
To G.O.M
Very insulted not to be picked in your top 3 jokes list…
p.s you can still change your mind…
And I, too, (not) humbly accept the award to most timely and cruel. The story itself it timely, coming out right before Pesach.