But how were cane toads gifted with those traits in the first place?
但是甘蔗蟾蜍究竟是如何获得那些特性的？
Cane toads can easily be caught in simple traps and can even be captured by hand.
简单的陷阱就可以抓到蔗蜍，甚至徒手都可以抓到。
The virus will control the population of cane toads by preventing them from maturing and reproducing.
这种病毒通过阻碍蔗蜍的蔗蜍的成熟和繁殖实现控制其数量的目的。
They would also like to see if other species such as goannas and bluetongue lizards could be taught not to eat cane toads.
他们还想知道其他的动物，比如巨蜥、蓝舌蜥是否也适用这种引导方法，不去捕食毒蛙。
They took 62 young quolls and fed half of them with small dead cane toads which were laced with nausea-inducing thiabendazole.
它们找来62只初生的小袋鼬，其中一半喂食紧系着致呕泻剂噻苯咪唑的死树蛙。
Cane toads were introduced to Australia in 1935 with the expectation that they would protect farmers' crops by eating harmful insects.
蔗蟾于1935年被引入澳大利亚，期待它们通过吃害虫来保护农民的庄稼。
Now some scientists are trying to help quolls, and maybe other species, by teaching them that cane toads are not food and should be avoided.
现在，一些科学家想办法帮助这些小袋鼬，或许还有其它类似的物种，方法就是教会它们树蛙是不能吃的，应当躲开。
Third, using the virus is a bad idea because it could have terrible consequences for cane toads in their original habitat in Central and South America.
第三，病毒可能会对蔗蜍原产的中南美洲的生态环境造成严重的破坏，所以使用病毒也是一个坏主意。
The 31 who had been introduced to cane toads "survived up to five times longer than 'toad-naïve' quolls, " Shine and his colleagues wrote in the April 13 issue of the Journal of Applied Ecology.
Shine和他的同事在四月十三号版的《应用生态学杂志》上写到：“31只经历了食死蛙实验”的袋鼬存活的时间是“毒蛙盲”袋鼬的五倍。”
The toads were imported from South America to eradicate scarab beetles that were feasting on sugar cane crops.
从南美进口的蟾蜍消灭金龟子被灯红酒绿甘蔗等作物。
The toads were imported from South America to eradicate scarab beetles that were feasting on sugar cane crops.
从南美进口的蟾蜍消灭金龟子被灯红酒绿甘蔗等作物。
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