A series of chemical or physiological processes that occur in successive stages, each of which is dependent on the preceding one, to produce a culminating effect. The steps involved in the clotting of blood occur as a cascade.
Cane Toads normally prey on insects and will eat any animal that they can ingest. Cane Toads eat almost anything such as small lizards, frogs, birds, fish, mice, bees, worms, dung beetles, scarab beetles and even younger Cane Toads.ane toads are popular pets because the novelty aspect due to their large size. An adult cane toad can weigh up to 4 pounds, so they can consume large quantities of food.
Costs of eating conspecific eggs are likely to be low. The toxins of cane toads pose no danger to cannibal conspecifics, even though the same toxins are deadly to tadpoles of Australian frogs (Crossland and Alford, 1998, Crossland and Azevedo-Ramos, 1999, Crossland et al., 2008 and Crossland and Shine, 2010).1) Toxin transfer. The amount and diversity of toxins (bufadienolides) decrease from the egg stage through larval development in cane toads, such that late-stage tadpoles and metamorphs have less effective chemical defences than earlier tadpoles or (especially) eggs (Hayes et al. 2009).