{"id":482081,"date":"2018-06-04T11:00:29","date_gmt":"2018-06-04T15:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?guid=ab8c6efff200e43e87a44c9861c48fa9"},"modified":"2018-06-04T11:00:29","modified_gmt":"2018-06-04T15:00:29","slug":"toxic-toad-invasion-puts-madagascars-predators-at-risk-genetic-evidence-confirms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=482081","title":{"rendered":"Toxic toad invasion puts Madagascar&#8217;s predators at risk, genetic evidence confirms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The recent introduction of the common Asian toad to Madagascar has led to fears that the toxic amphibian could wreak havoc on the island&#8217;s already severely threatened fauna. Now, researchers report genetic evidence in the journal Current Biology on June 4 showing that those fears are well founded: virtually all predators native to Madagascar are highly sensitive to toad toxins. If they should eat the toads, it would be a potentially fatal mistake.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The recent introduction of the common Asian toad to Madagascar has led to fears that the toxic amphibian could wreak havoc on the island&#8217;s already severely threatened fauna. Now, researchers report genetic evidence in the journal Current Biology on Jun&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-482081","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/482081","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=482081"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/482081\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":482082,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/482081\/revisions\/482082"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/615444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=482081"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=482081"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=482081"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}