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Giant American bullfrogs are culled to stop ponds takeover Cull ordered to stop march of America's amphibious bullies
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A CULL of giant American bullfrogs in Sussex is stopping them from
destroying Britain's own smaller species.
The bullies of the frog world, up to 8in long, crossed the
Atlantic either as exotic pets or as chance tadpole or egg arrivals
with aquarium fish. In the past year, more than 7,000 froglets and
tadpoles, as well as a handful of adults, have been humanely
destroyed, the journal British Wildlife.reports.
The bullfrog - or Rana catesbeiana - has also been introduced into
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