Wild Guttural Toad (IMAGE)

Stellenbosch University

Wild Guttural Toad

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Guttural Toads, native to mainland Africa, were deliberately introduced from Durban to Mauritius in 1922 in an attempt to biocontrol the cane beetle, and from there moved to Réunion in 1927 as a biocontrol of malaria-carrying mosquitoes.

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James Baxter-Gilbert

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