Ibis add toxic cane toads to the menu with clever technique to eliminate poison first

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good news!

Ibis use 'stress and wash' technique to eat poisonous cane toads ABC Gold Coast / By Tom Forbes Posted 12h ago12 hours ago, updated 10h ago photo of an ibis carrying a black toad in its beak Ibis are employing the "stress and wash" method to reduce toxin levels in cane toads.(Supplied: Liam Gill)ALT

why is this so fucking comical

Close up on the Ibis beak and toad with dangling legsALT
"It's quite amusing to watch and it's quite different from other native species and their methods of eating them," she said. "The ibis will pick up cane toads and they will flick them about and stress out the toads. "What this does is it makes the cane toads release toxins from the parotoid gland at the back of their neck, which is their defence mechanism when they're faced with predators. "Then they'll take them down to the creek and wash them." photo of another Ibis carrying a toad ALT
zooming in on this Ibis. it has iridescence around its shouldersALT

yeah you must fucken …. you stress out the toad and then give it a rinse, voilah

Ibis add toxic cane toads to the menu with clever technique to eliminate poison first

this is HUGELY good news because the cane toad is insanely invasive and will wipe out native species since almost nothing can kill it. ibis are considered pests and called ‘bin chickens’ etc, but they are native birds that are just sometimes annoying in urban spaces!

YES YES HUNT EAT KILL

LMAO, INTERESTING

this is possibly a game-changing adaptation.  here in South Florida we have lots of ibises and lots of cane toads and those toads are SO dangerous to pets.  one of many reasons you need to leash your dog and keep your cats inside, at least here.  The poison toads are evil fuckers.