The other night, while I was walking around to close up the laundry room, I noticed a big bamboocha cockroach scuttling around on the tiles.The big bamboochas are the ones that eat their little brother/sister cockroaches, so no big deal.
I was just going to scuff it off the deck and into the gutter so the bamboocha wouldn't freak out any guests that may come up, when all of a sudden, a lightning-fast critter shot out and scooped up the bamboocha.
It was a cane toad. The cane toads can get to be about as large as a fist and they are the homeliest critters you'll see (whereas the bamboochas are just plain ugly). The cane toad took a couple of audible chunks out of the bamboocha and then backed off. . . The bamboocha was on its back and flipping its legs around when the cane toad came in for another chomp and finished it off.
This goes in all the time, of course, but it was the first time that I had witnessed the life and death of the pequeno mundo first hand.
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