Queen: Dip the apple in the brew. Let the Sleeping Death seep through. [the poison on the apple forms a skull]
Australia’s vile and poisonous plague of cane toads may finally have met its match — and it comes in a tin of cat food.
After years spent trying to batter, gas, run over and even freeze the toxic toads out of existence, scientists say just a dollop of Whiskas could stop the warty horde.
The cat food attracts Australia’s carnivorous meat ants, which swarm over and munch on baby toads killing 70 percent of them.
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The most poisonous animal substance is batrachotoxin, produced by the poison arrow frog of South America. As little as the weight of two grains of table salt will turn your lights out for good.
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