Ventilatory behaviors of the toad Bufo marinus revealed by coherence analysis.

Food of the Marine Toad, Bufo mavinus, and Six Species of Skink in a Cacao Plantation in New Britain, Papua New Guinea

Food items from the stomachs of the toad Bufo marinus comprised 88 % snails and ants. The main single item of food of the skinks Carlia fusca, Emoia baudinii, E. callisticta, E. mivarti, Lamprolepis smaragdinum and Sphenomorphus jobiensis was lepidopteran larvae.

Lateralisation of predator avoidance responses in three species of toads.

Lateralisation of responses to presentation of a simulated predator was investigated in three species of toads: two European species (the common toad, Bufo bufo, and the green toad, Bufo viridis) and one species introduced to Australia from South America, the cane toad Bufo marinus . First a simulated snake was presented moving rapidly towards the toad in the frontal field of vision and the toa...

Thermal Dependence of Maximal Ca2+-Activated Force in Skinned Muscle Fibres of the Toad Bufo Marinus Acclimated at Different Temperatures

Rod pigment and rod noise in the European toad Bufo bufo

Behavioural experiments and ganglion cell recordings indicate that the visual sensitivity of dark-adapted toads is limited by the occurrence of spontaneous isomerization-like noise events in the rods. The frequency of these "false photons" has previously been studied (with micropipette recording) in the toad species Bufo marinus, while the behavioural thresholds were determined using Bufo bufo ...

Acanthocephalus bufonis (Acanthocephala) from Bufo marinus (Bufonidae: Amphibia) in Hawaii.

During a survey of the helminth parasites of the introduced toad, Bufo marinus, on O'ahu, Hawaii, an acanthocephalan corresponding to Acanthocephalus bufonis (Shipley, 1903) was found in the intestinal tract. This is a new host and locality record for A. bufonis which has only previously been recorded from amphibians in the Orient. Possible mechanisms for the introduction of A. bufonis to Hawai...