Can Keelback Snakes Eat Cane Toads?

Although they feed primarily on frogs, keelbacks are also known to eat fish, aquatic invertebrates, reptile eggs, occasional small mammals and, yes, some cane toads.

What Australian animals can eat cane toads?

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.

What preys on cane toads?

In the cane toad's native habitat of Central and South America, it has many natural predators. Caimans (a relative of the crocodile), snakes, birds, and even fish prey on the cane toad.

Marcus Vance

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