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Meet the Surinam Toad, a five-inch-long amphibian that lives in South America.Once the female toad’s eggs are fertilized by the male, they embed in her back, which transforms into a honeycomb ...
Scientists described how some species of toad choose to mate with males of a different species, showing that females can place sexual pressure on another species for the first time.
Male toads, she explained, release sperm in their urine, and urinate when they're frightened. "And so, what we do is we will maybe bark at the toad to get them to urinate," she laughed.
Edward Joseph Lowe, On the Reproduction of the Toad and Frog without the Intermediate Stage of Tadpole. [Abstract], Abstracts of the Papers Communicated to the Royal Society of London, Vol. 6 (1850 - ...
We may earn a commission from links on this page. Reproductive arrangements don't get much stranger than those of the Batura toad of Pakistan. The entire species is the result of two unknown ...
Boreal toads live in mountainous habitats between 7,000 and 12,000 feet of elevation. ... the Pitkin site would be Colorado’s second reintroduction site with confirmed natural reproduction.
Tilford knows eradicating the toads is not going to happen, but she and her growing staff are trying to put a dent in their reproduction. "I would say at this point we've probably done 300,000 ...
'Extinct' Toad Rediscovered in Ecuador. To biologists’ delight, the Azuay stubfoot toad, believed to be extinct after its last sighting in 2002, has just leapt back to life.