Russell Crowe

Can't catch this thing if it's flying.

So it was of no use at all in trying to listen to that population.

However, it became like a dominant species and it was in Queensland, but now it's starting to come in New South Wales.

So they're basically marching away.

And it's a problem, man.

It's like a serious problem.

They secrete poison.

So if a dog gets interested and the toad gets afraid, the dog can sort of like sniff or lick its head, then get poisoned and that's the end of your dog, you know.

But there was a period of time there

where there's actually a documentary from the 90s called Cane Toads.

And it sort of just points out how crazy people were getting.

People in small country towns walking from their house to the pub, taking a cricket bat and just smacking the cane toads off the road as they went.

It's like all these people becoming crazed with the idea of getting rid of the cane toad population, but it hasn't affected them.

They just keep growing.

so big and these things jamie can you do me a favor look up the weight of the largest cane toad that they found because it's it's always a surprise these things grow and if they're in the right environment and things that they can eat and feed on they just get bigger and bigger look at this thing look at this thing mate

5.8 pounds.

Man.

But see, look, if you see where those, see that cluster of light blue balls, right?

They're basically in there, in the middle of that cluster is where they dropped them to start with.

And look at how they've- Well, they're going to make their way across the whole country.