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Title:

Cane toads [videorecording DVD] : an unnatural history / a First Run Features presentation ; written and directed by Mark Lewis ; Film Australia.

Format:

[videorecording DVD] :

Publisher:

First Run Features Home Video,

Copyright Date:

2001

Description:

1 videodisc (ca. 65 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.

Subject:

Bufo marinus--Video disc (DVD).
Toads--Australia--Video disc (DVD).
Pest introduction--Video disc (DVD).--Australia--Video disc (DVD).
Sugarcane--Video disc (DVD).--Biological control--Environmental aspects--Australia--Video disc (DVD).
Documentary films--Video disc (DVD).
DVD-Video discs.

Other Authors:

Lewis, Mark.
Film Australia (Organization)

Other Titles:

Signing off [videorecording DVD]

Notes:

Originally produced as a motion picture in 1988. Includes a bonus short film: "Signing off" and an interactive guide to the cane toad.

Summary:

Documents the history of the Cane toad in Australia. The cane toad - Bufo marinus - was imported to Australia in 1935 in an attempt to rid the country of the greyback beetle, which was devouring the sugarcane crop. Problem was, the beetle could fly, and the cane toad couldn't. What the cane toad was unusually proficient at, however, was making more cane toads. A humorous look at a serious problem.

OCLC:

(OCoLC)47827573

Locations:

UPAX334 -- Upper Iowa University - Henderson-Wilder Library (Fayette)

CAPH522 -- Iowa City Public Library (Iowa City)

OZAX845 -- Northwestern College - DeWitt Library (Orange City)