Mojo ♻️Not new, but still brilliant. Nature adapts — and fast. Australia’s native water rats, also known as #rakali have figured out how to safely eat deadly #canetoads by surgically removing and feasting only on their hearts.
#nature #adaptation #australia #evasivespecies
Droppie@mojo Re-read it now, & enjoyed it anew. It would be great for a journo to follow this up now, five years on. Fingers crossed the trend has continued & expanded 🤞
Did you see, sometime in the past week iirc, another article about native bush rats beginning to displace / replace the undesirable imported rats in various places? Carn you little Aussie battlers! 😆
Did you see, sometime in the past week iirc, another article about native bush rats beginning to displace / replace the undesirable imported rats in various places? Carn you little Aussie battlers! 😆
@MsDropbear42 Yes, nature’s fighting back in all sorts of clever ways. Northern quolls are another great story — some are evolving resistance to cane toads, and others are being trained with taste aversion.
Su_GGood for them! And us!! Clever little Vegemites. 🙂
Can think of a few other toads to toss them, when they’re ready to branch out into other species…