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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ironwood" data-source="post: 290919" data-attributes="member: 10447">How long have they been at Darwin Scott ?I was working in Weipa when their march finally arrived up there in the 1980's.When the first few were starting to appear, the government was paying a bounty for any toads caught, so they could do research on them.A couple of young lads found an old suitcase at the local rubbish tip that was open and had caught some rainwater that a toad had laid its eggs in, the lads found the suitcase when the young toads had just hatched. They closed the suitcase and took it in and collected a small fortune ( from memory it may have been around $500, a lot for schoolkids in those days ) That was the end of the bounty after that.</blockquote>