Ok, I am quite sure enough decades have passed to allow the illegal substances to subside and I am not prone to hallucination on a regular basis. Last night, my wife directed me to remove a dead rat from the deck behind our house. I was not pleased with this task, as it had odviously been dead for a few days and did not smell pleasent at all, but I totally understand the concept that it is the duty of the man to remove dead vermin, kill insects, snakes, and such. The strange part is, that there were two very large toads that appeared to be dining on this dead rodent. I always thought that toads only ate flies and such, but these sure seemed to be enjoying a meal of stinky dead rat. someone help me out here? Toads don't eat rats...do they? These toads were much larger than your typical garden variety.
Cane Toads eat almost anything they can swallow, including pet food, carrion and household scraps, but most of their food is living insects. Beetles, honey bees, ants, winged termites, crickets and bugs are eaten in abundance. Marine snails, smaller toads and native frogs, small snakes, and small mammals are occasionally eaten by Cane Toads. guess I didn't imagine it.
I found this information about frogs and toads of Florida - http://www.ces.ncsu.edu/nreos/wild/pdf/wildlife/FROGS_N_TOADS.PDF Food Habits Most frogs have a two-phased life cycle, including an aquatic larval form (tadpole) and a terrestrial or semiaquatic adult form. Tadpoles are primarily herbivorous, feeding on algae and decaying organic matter. Adults, on the other hand, are carnivorous, consuming almost any prey that can be overpowered. Although the diet consists primarily of insects, crayfish, and other invertebrates, larger frogs occasionally take snakes, other frogs, fish, mice, and small birds. In natural habitats, fish usually comprise less than 5% of the diet of the bullfrog. On fish farms, as many as 30% of bullfrogs have been found to contain fish.
