HOW DOES A CANE TOAD FRONTLINE WORK?
Weekly field reconnaissance by KTBs since September 2005 has shown that males generally take the initiative to move forward, often in colonies of several hundred. It has also been observed that these male colonising fronts often have lone or a few females randomly in front of them. The complexity of how cane toads invade, how many different calls the male makes, and what call males actually make when they want to attract females for breeding, must be better understood to enhance cane toad catching and control. Cane Toad management strategies must be in place prior to an invasion. Clearly any research towards finding a biological solution also requires this knowledge. KTBs COLLECT DATA KTBs measure and take length of every adult cane toad they catch, and they record this data along with gender of each toad on KTB data collection sheets. KTB DATA SHOWS? It is clear to KTBs from their data collected from weekly reconnaissance and toadbusting since September 2005 that: • The cane toad fron
