Post by j7oyun55rruk on Dec 30, 2023 7:25:03 GMT 1
Researchers at the University of Queensland have developed a bait that can lure toad tadpoles to certain death. People shoot toads with air rifles, hit them with hammers, beat them with golf clubs, run over cars, stick them in the freezer until they harden, and spray them with a compound called HopStop, which, as the sellers say, "neutralizes toad venom in a few seconds" and kills them within an hour. "Anti-toad" detachments are organized.
A group called the "Kimberley Toad Hunters" recommended that the Australian government offer a C Level Contact List reward for every toad that was killed. is: "If everyone hunted toads, soon there would be no one to hunt!" Tizard became interested in Agami toads even before he saw them. Geelong is in southern Victoria, a region that toads have not yet taken over. But one day at a conference, he was sitting next to a molecular biologist who was studying these toads and told him that despite their best efforts, toads continue to spread.
She noticed that it was very sad and it was a pity that there was no new approach to solving this problem,” Tizard recalled. Well, I sat down and began to think. I reasoned like this: toxins are a product of toad metabolism. This means that enzymes are involved in their production, and enzymes must have genes that encode them. At the same time, we have the tools to “turn off” genes. So can't we "turn off" the gene that is responsible for producing the toxin.
A group called the "Kimberley Toad Hunters" recommended that the Australian government offer a C Level Contact List reward for every toad that was killed. is: "If everyone hunted toads, soon there would be no one to hunt!" Tizard became interested in Agami toads even before he saw them. Geelong is in southern Victoria, a region that toads have not yet taken over. But one day at a conference, he was sitting next to a molecular biologist who was studying these toads and told him that despite their best efforts, toads continue to spread.
She noticed that it was very sad and it was a pity that there was no new approach to solving this problem,” Tizard recalled. Well, I sat down and began to think. I reasoned like this: toxins are a product of toad metabolism. This means that enzymes are involved in their production, and enzymes must have genes that encode them. At the same time, we have the tools to “turn off” genes. So can't we "turn off" the gene that is responsible for producing the toxin.