While at a friends house one night, I couldn't help but here an ever so pleasant sound of spring time. I walked over to the ditch on the side of the road and found a couple american toads in chorus. I reached my hand down and one of the excited toads began amplexus with my thumb. Since this happened so quick I wanted to take him inside and get to know him better before I made that kind of commitment. I could identify the american toad, Bufo americanus, by his single wart per spot. His parotid glands did not touch the cranial crest either. Afterwards, I told him I just wasn't ready for a relationship and he hopped back into the ditch side. I later found out that the water the american toads were calling in was the result of a leaky fire hydrant. However, as the city fixed the leak there was no worry of endangered eggs. Seems that the guys had a rather unsuccessful night. Save one. . . (Cody Rabert, Oxford, OH).
Monday, April 27, 2009
Bufo americanus
While at a friends house one night, I couldn't help but here an ever so pleasant sound of spring time. I walked over to the ditch on the side of the road and found a couple american toads in chorus. I reached my hand down and one of the excited toads began amplexus with my thumb. Since this happened so quick I wanted to take him inside and get to know him better before I made that kind of commitment. I could identify the american toad, Bufo americanus, by his single wart per spot. His parotid glands did not touch the cranial crest either. Afterwards, I told him I just wasn't ready for a relationship and he hopped back into the ditch side. I later found out that the water the american toads were calling in was the result of a leaky fire hydrant. However, as the city fixed the leak there was no worry of endangered eggs. Seems that the guys had a rather unsuccessful night. Save one. . . (Cody Rabert, Oxford, OH).
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