Our research, published today in Australian Mammalogy, found water rats in Western Australia adapted to hunt the highly poisonous toads less than two years after the toads moved into the rats ...

As if we didn’t already love Australia’s native water rats enough, the rakali has now been seen preying on one of Australia’s most invasive species, the cane toad. AUSTRALIA’S WATER RATS or Rakali, ...

“Water rats are quite large themselves,” Parrott said, according to the outlet. “They have the power to subdue a larger toad and get a bigger payload, get that larger heart and larger live ...

Australian Water Rats are found across Australia and are a large, semi-aquatic nocturnal rodent which has developed a taste for the invasive Cane Toad. As in, the poisonous cane toad infamous for ...

Graphic footage of a water rat feasting on the innards of a cane toad while it's still alive shows that native animals are starting to outsmart the toxic pests. The video was captured by wildlife ...

Australian water rats, otherwise known as rakali in Western Australia, have learned to target poisonous cane toads by making small, neat incisions to eat their hearts and livers, all the while ...

She was fed up with the local Water Rats littering her pool surround with the remains of cane toads that they had killed and eaten. "This is particularly interesting," she goes on, "because we ...

But the water rats in the north of Australia are native animals and apparently super smart. They dissect the cane toads before they eat them and remove the venomous gallbladder.

Moving on from being the co-frontman of The Last Shadow Puppets and formerly the frontman of The Rascals Miles Kane last night took to the small but perfectly formed Water Rats stage to play his ...

Some rodents can eat small juvenile toads, but no rodents have been documented specifically targeting large toads. In our case, water rats preferred to eat large toads, despite medium-sized toads ...