Scientists in Australia have come up with an unusual plan to save freshwater crocodiles that keep dying after eating invasive and poisonous toads. By filling dead toads with a chemical that makes the ...

Poisonous toads are killing freshwater crocodiles in Australia, but taste-aversion training might help to save the reptiles’ lives 1. In the Australian tropics, many populations of freshwater ...

All it takes is one miserable night after a bad dinner or drink to make humans avoid an ingredient for life. To teach freshwater crocodiles in Australia to avoid a lethally poisonous toad, all it ...

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. Seuss ...