The Wire

Native Meat Ants and cat food could be the solution in eradicating the scourge of the Australian environment- the Cane Toad. Professor Rick Shine of the university of Sydney has been conducting research into using cat food to lure the meat ants to river banks populated with young toads. He explains to Dominic Geiger how once there, significant mortality rates result, as the toads do not have an intrinsic fear of the ants.