Cane Toads - An Unnatural History (3-Day Rental)

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The cane toad was imported from Hawaii in 1935 to save Queensland's sugar crop from the grey-back beetle. It failed because the beetle could fly and the cane toad couldn’t. But the cane toad stayed to become a pest of plague proportions and part of local culture and popular mythology. This off-beat and entertaining documentary presents not just the biological information, but the surprising range of people's attitudes to these grotesque creatures, including keeping them as pets.

(1987, 46 mins) A Film Australia Production.

© National Film and Sound Archive of Australia.