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。
As a result, animals like quolls can survive in the wild even in a toad-infested landscape, " Webb said in a prepared statement.
因此，像袋鼬这样的动物甚至可以在毒蛙出没的野外环境下 存活下去。
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。
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 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。”
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