Cane Toads: An Unnatural History (1988)'s activity

Mark Lewis's lo-fi documentary Cane Toads: An Unnatural History is by turns delightful and frightening, just like his subject. In the 1930s, Australian cane sugar farmers imported these big fat frogs from Hawaii to take care of their cane grub/beetle problem. Not only did it fail, but the invader species started eating everything in sight, reproducing in large numbers, and never found a natural predator. When the film was made, it was already taking over Australia. Isn't this the same country that had problems with invading rabbits?! Some people never learn. Lewis treats his subject like deadpan absurdist theater, showing us people who love them and people who hate them, even among scientists. How the toad has affected pop culture in the area. How cute it is. How creepy and dangerous it is. Some of the stories are almost too insane to be true. Fair warning, there's one shot of a toad eating another animal that once scene, cannot be unseen. It was shot during feeding time at a nature preserve - the film makers just watched as nature - or un-nature, as it were - took its course. Nevertheless, brr...