The Cane toad Challenge

Question 1 · multiple choice

Which landscape is most suitable for a wild Cane toad?

rain forest, wetlands, dry forest, and river margins cool moist forests of southeastern Australia rock pools, rocky coasts, and shallow seabeds tropical forest edges, grassland, farms, gardens, and towns

Question 2 · multiple choice

Which description best matches the natural diet of a Cane toad?

insects, snails, worms, small animals, pet food, and scraps fruit, leaves, shoots, bark, and some insects mainly leaves, with some fruit and flowers mostly medium-sized birds captured in flight

Question 3 · multiple choice

A tracking tag records the daily rhythm of a Cane toad. Which pattern is the best match?

travels day and night, resting on the ocean mostly active at night active mainly at night often feeds when currents concentrate plankton

Question 4 · multiple choice

A motion camera records a Cane toad. Which description should appear in the observation notes?

uses dynamic soaring to cross huge distances with little flapping climbs walls and ceilings with adhesive toe pads walks and makes short hops rather than long leaps flies through water with broad triangular fins

Question 5 · multiple choice

Which adaptation would a biologist correctly connect to a Cane toad?

salt glands near the eyes remove excess salt from seawater fires a focused jet of water to knock insects from leaves a flexible body and feeding tentacles process large amounts of sediment large shoulder glands release potent defensive toxins

Question 6 · multiple choice

What would a researcher most reasonably record during the breeding cycle of a Cane toad?

long strings of eggs are laid in still or slow water eggs are carried and cleaned by a parent until hatching larvae develop in the sea before young crabs move onto land pups are born in a den and cared for by several pack members

Question 7 · multiple choice

How is a Cane toad most likely to organise its everyday social life?

mostly solitary, using scent and droppings to mark areas mostly solitary but crowds around breeding ponds and food pairs defend feeding territories during breeding mostly territorial, though groups gather where food is abundant

Question 8 · multiple choice

A habitat manager explains why the Cane toad matters. Which explanation is accurate?

spreads large seeds through forest after eating fruit supports algae and moth communities in its fur and recycles canopy nutrients consumes many invertebrates but can disrupt ecosystems where introduced regulates populations of flying birds in natural and urban habitats

Question 9 · multiple choice

Which field observation would show a Cane toad defending itself?

uses camouflage, strength, water escape, and warning growls runs into dense cover and freezes quietly withdraws into the shell and blocks the entrance with a claw inflates its body and releases toxin when seized

Question 10 · true false

True or False: A cane toad can live for decades and endure years without eating by lowering its metabolism.

True False