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It seems you can teach an old quoll new tricks. Australian scientists have successfully taught the endangered marsupial to avoid eating toxic cane toads. Researchers conditioned the quolls by feeding them very small toads tainted with the nauseating toxin. The animals were tagged and released into the wild, and scientists report that the conditioned quolls survive up to five times longer than unconditioned ones.10 odd ways we protect endangered species

It seems you can teach an old quoll new tricks. Australian scientists have successfully taught the endangered marsupial to avoid eating toxic cane toads. Researchers conditioned the quolls by feeding them very small toads tainted with the nauseating toxin. The animals were tagged and released into the wild, and scientists report that the conditioned quolls survive up to five times longer than unconditioned ones.
10 odd ways we protect endangered species

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