What impacts do cane toads have on the australian environment?

Question

What impacts do cane toads have on the australian environment?

Answer 1

Cane toads have extremely high reproductive rates. Their populations can proliferate in short periods of time. Some effects that they have had on native Australian species include:

Other native frog species have to compete with the cane toad for resources

Kookaburras, crocodiles, quolls  and other native species can sometimes try to eat the toad and die from the toxins of the toad.

Answer 2

Good answer above!

Additionally, the cane toad itself feeds on native frogs.  And they can get quite large, and have been witnessed eating ground nesting bird chicks.

A big problme concerns snakes.  Many australian snakes have frogs as a major part of their diet.  So many species no longer occur in areas with high toad numbers.

Answer 3

it eats everything and is therefore cuasing a decline in autralias natural wildlife and also an increase in some plants due to insects not eating them. Large animals like crocs and pythons are also effected negatively as they try to eat the cane toad only to find out thats its toxins are so string that they themselves die.

there were originally imported from argentina