Record for the largest toad was achieved in Australia with the ‘Toadzilla’ of at least six pounds

The The record for the largest toad was broken with the appearance of ‘Toadzilla’, weighing more than six poundsin Australiarevealed the park rangers in the north who got the animal.

Compared to an average weight of one pound, the toad, nicknamed ‘Toadzilla,’ weighed in at what is believed to be a milestone: 5.95 pounds; drew disbelief and gasps at the same time.

Precisely, at the moment that she was carrying out track work in the Conway National Park, the ranger Kylee Gray denoted the also called toad monster.

Through a press release, he exclaimed “I couldn’t believe how big and heavy it was!”

The ‘Toadzilla’ toad creates a sensation

Gray stated that, although they do not know how old it is, “it has been around for a long time”; they think it’s a female toad. It was known that, in nature, cane toads have the ability to live up to 15 years.

To sacrifice, take it out of nature, in a container they chose to place the toad; the action was carried out by the rangers.

In order to control the cane beetle population, cane toads were introduced in 1935, right in Queensland.. However, they became a damaging pest, poisoning other wildlife, colonizing habitatsown right.

local extinctions

For other species, their bodies are toxic. They have even generated local extinctions of various potential predators. For Gray, “a cane toad that size will eat anything that can fit in its mouth, and that includes insects, reptiles and small mammals.”

To date they have no natural predators in Australia, they are native to South and Central America. On the mainland there may be close to 200 million cane toads on the mainland, this number being an incredible increase from the 100 that were added less than a century ago.