{"id":39154,"date":"2013-09-11T09:21:45","date_gmt":"2013-09-11T13:21:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/?p=39154"},"modified":"2013-09-11T09:21:45","modified_gmt":"2013-09-11T13:21:45","slug":"cane-toad-found-in-mount-pleasant-village","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2013\/09\/cane-toad-found-in-mount-pleasant-village","title":{"rendered":"Cane Toad Found In Mount Pleasant Village"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-39158\" title=\"cane-toad\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/cane-toad1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/cane-toad1.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/cane-toad1-150x112.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/>It\u2019s on the move, and no one knows for certain the extent of the Cane Toad\u2019s invasion on New Providence Island.\u00a0 Recent news reports say that the exotic creature was confined to Lyford Cay.<\/p>\n<p>We know different now.\u00a0 On Tuesday September 10, 2013 \u2013 a Cane Toad was found in the Mount Pleasant Village community.\u00a0 The Lyford Cay police were notified, and action was taken to eliminate the venomous toad.\u00a0 The Cane Toad undertakers quietly took the remains away.<\/p>\n<p>The question now is:\u00a0 Where will we find the next Cane Toad on our island?<\/p>\n<p>According to Wikipedia, the cane toad has poison glands, and the tadpoles are highly toxic to most animals if ingested. Because of its voracious appetite, the cane toad has been introduced to many regions of the Pacific and the Caribbean islands as a method of agricultural pest control.<\/p>\n<p>The species derives its common name from its use against the cane beetle (Dermolepida albohirtum). The cane toad is now considered a pest and an invasive species in many of its introduced regions; of particular concern is its toxic skin, which kills many animals\u2014native predators and otherwise\u2014when ingested.<\/p>\n<p>By Dennis Dames<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s on the move, and no one knows for certain the extent of the Cane Toad\u2019s invasion on New Providence Island.  The toxic creature is no longer confined to the Lyford Cay area.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"facebook_10223285771444175_51037792744":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[63,133,76],"class_list":["post-39154","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-headlines","tag-animals","tag-community","tag-environment-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39154","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39154"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39154\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}