Just in case you were getting a little peckish, and were wanting a snack, please be warned that cain toads are highly poisonous. In case you don’t know what they look like, here’s a picture of one.

Reuters Photo:

(Notice that the eyes look a little like stained glass windows.)

But what really struck me was how resilient some animals are.

[Cane toads] have highly poisonous sacs behind their head which quickly kill native animals, such as quolls, that prey on them.

Cane toads are so toxic that crocodiles, death adder snakes and wild dingo dogs can die within 15 minutes of cardiac arrest after eating a toad.

So we learn that when they eat a cain toad, crocodiles, death adder snakes and wild dingo dogs can live for 15 minutes after their hearts have stopped beating. I wonder how much longer they could live after cardiac arrest if they hadn’t eaten a fatally poisonous toad.