Sugar Cane Toads Analysis

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Both the reading passage and the listening lecture are discussing methods to eliminate cane toads from their new environments in Australia. The writer asserts that there have been successful method in getting rid of the cane toads from the sugar cane fields of Australia. However, the lecturer disagrees with the writer's opinion by claiming that the three methods were not successful at all. First, the author claims that humans physically capturing and killing the cane toads has been effective. Refuting this claim, the professor saids that even if people catch nine out of ten toads, one female toad can reproduce thousands of new eggs. Among these eggs, most of them hatch and become toads. Therefore, infestation is inevitable. Next, according

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