Wild quolls take bait of cane-toad sausages, offering hope for species
by Amy McNeilage from Environment | The Guardian on (#3JHJ7)
Wildlife managers hope taste aversion technique can help safeguard the endangered northern quoll
Scientists are a step closer to stopping the devastating march of toxic cane toads across northern Australia, as the introduced species continues to decimate what is left of the native quoll populations.
Field trials of a technique used to turn quolls off the taste of toads has yielded positive results, which were published in this month's Austral Ecology journal.