Ed Dunens on Flickr. Australian Water Rats cut Cane Toads open to eat their hearts and livers while avoiding the poisonous skin and glands. Posted by. 17 days ago. Eat your heart out: native water rats have worked out how to safely eat cane toads Water rats in Western Australia are safely hunting cane toads. 23 comments. Rakali have been feasting on the poisonous toads in the Kimberly but have somehow lived to tell the tale. We’re not sure whether water rats have very rapidly learned how to safely attack and eat cane toads, or if they are adapting a similar long-term hunting strategy that they may use to eat toxic native frogs. A water rat eating at Healesville Sanctuary. But native water rats are not the only Australian animals that have learnt to dodge the poison and make a meal out of the cane toad — Rhinella marina. Australia’s water rats, or Rakali, are one of Australia’s beautiful but lesser-known native rodents. And these intelligent, semi-aquatic rats have revealed another talent: they are one of the only Australian mammals to safely eat toxic cane toads. Australian Water Rats known as Rakali might be an unsung hero for eradicating the notorious cane toad. Close. Author provided Marissa Parrott, University of Melbourne and Simon Clulow, Macquarie University. Highly intelligent Australian water rats have learned how to kill poisonous cane toads in Australia by eating their hearts and carving their organs with “surgical precision,” according to research published in Australian Mammalogy.. Fact. Australia's water rats, or Rakali, are one of Australia's beautiful but lesser-known native rodents. Cane toads produce a poisonous cocktail of bufotoxins and bufogenins, making them deadly to most Australian animals. So what are Rakali, and why haven’t we heard of them until now? In our case, water rats preferred to eat large toads, despite medium-sized toads outnumbering them by 27 to 1. A water rat eating at Healesville Sanctuary. We’re not sure whether water rats have very rapidly learned how to safely attack and eat cane toads, or if they are adapting a similar long-term hunting strategy that they may use to eat toxic native frogs. Australian Water Rats cut Cane Toads open to eat their hearts and livers while avoiding the poisonous skin and glands. Australian Water Rats Are Eating the Hearts out of Cane Toads with Surgical Precision They're some of the first native animals to learn how to eat cane toads without getting poisoned. Australian Water Rats Are Killing Cane Toads With Insane Surgical Precision. 920. Fact. Can water rats take on cane toads?

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