Australian water rats kill & consume cane toads in a way that would impress Mortal Kombat fighters

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Surgical mutilation of cane toads?

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Best comment from the linked article:

The Australian version of The Wind in the Willows is definitely more hardcore than the original one.

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Check it out, @Tamsin_Bailey, more cute rats! Only this time trying to clean up a mess those pestilential humans made, while defending their homeland against an imported scourge. Somebody should male a movie!

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I award +3.5 internet merits to whoever managed to come up with the paper’s title and get it to publication:

Eat your heart out: choice and handling of novel toxic prey by predatory water rats

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It is somewhat less disturbing that the obvious alternative explanation: that the black helicopters’ ecology has been disrupted and they are now looking for new sorts of prey.

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