Invasive cane toads that unrecorded successful Australia’s cities person developed antithetic carnal traits from those successful the countryside, which whitethorn beryllium owed to accelerated adaptation to municipality environments
Life 14 September 2022By Jake Buehler
Caption: Cane toad taken successful an municipality mounting of Townsville, QLD, Australia.Copyright: Hirotaka Komine Hirotaka Komine
The invasive cane toads that unrecorded successful Australia’s cities person developed antithetic carnal traits from those successful the countryside, and these changes whitethorn beryllium owed to accelerated adaptation to their differing lifestyles.
“In general, municipality environments person little predators than agrarian environments,” says Hirotaka Komine astatine Yamagata University successful Japan.
He and his colleagues collected astir 600 cane toads (Rhinella marina) from 18 locations successful and surrounding 3 cities successful bluish Queensland, Australia. Along …