stackyFACTSTrying to outsmart nature usually results in nature completely dominating you.
Trying to outsmart nature usually results in nature completely dominating you. Australia introduced the massive cane toad in 1935 to eat beetles that were destroying sugar crops. The toads completely ignored the beetles, rapidly multiplied, and spread across the continent. Because they secrete deadly toxins, native predators that tried to eat them died instantly. It remains a spectacular failure of agricultural intervention, unleashing a warty plague upon the land.
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