Researchers in Australia concerned about the sharp decline of freshwater crocodiles who eat a toxic, invasive toad species have come up with a stomach-churning way for the reptiles to help themselves.

"So we cut off the top half of their body," says Ward-Fear, "so that [the crocodiles are] still getting the smell and the taste, but we've taken the most toxic parts off." Then they did something ...

In Western Australia, scientists are making crocodiles feel sick in order to save their lives as they test a new baiting system meant to keep them away from toxic cane toads. The Guardian reported ...

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Wild crocodiles in Australia keep dying from eating toxic cane toads, so scientists have trained them to avoid the deadly meal by giving them a memorable dose of food poisoning. Cane toads ...

but we've taken the most toxic parts off. DANIEL: Then they did something sneaky. WARD-FEAR: We've injected with a compound that elicits nausea in the crocodiles. So it makes them sick.

"In tropical Australia, some populations of freshwater crocodiles (Crocodylus johnstoni) have plummeted by greater than 70 percent due to lethal ingestion of toxic invasive cane toads," the ...

The aquatic reptiles cannot resist eating invasive toads that are toxic, so scientists gave the crocodiles a dose of nonlethal food poisoning to adjust their behavior. By Jack Tamisiea When Dr ...

They searched for any dead crocodiles and cut them open to see if a toxic toad was the cause of death. Crocodiles learned quickly that once was enough when it came to dead toad butts. The ...

To protect freshwater crocodiles from deadly invasive cane toads ... To facilitate coexistence with the toxic toads, Ward-Fear and colleagues have begun to work directly with the native predators ...

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