The Toadinator is a trap fitted out with a portable speaker that plays the cane toad’s song, which some compare to a dial tone and others to the thrum of a motor. Researchers at the University of Queensland have developed a bait that can be used to lure cane toad tadpoles to their doom. People shoot cane toads with air rifles, whack them with hammers, bash them with golf clubs, purposefully run them over with their cars, stick them in the freezer until they solidify, and spray them with a compound called HopStop, which, buyers are assured, “anesthetizes toads within seconds” and dispatches
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