Candidate for Mascot: Eastern Spadefoot Toad

The Eastern Spadefoot Toad (Scaphiopus Holbrookii) would just love to be nominated as the Herp Class Mascot! I've spoken with Earnest (featured below), and he has asked me to be his campaign mangager. Of course, I agreed right away. Over the course of the semester, we have been digging around looking for herps. No one knows digging better than Earnest, who has his very own spades built into his cute little froggy feet... (hence the genus Scaphiopus: skaphis is Greek for "shovel or spade", and pous is Greek for "foot".) As a professional burrower, he is quite busy, but if chosen to be class mascot he will make appearances to support and encourage the students after heavy rains during the warm months of the year.
Just look into his vertically elliptical pupil, and you will know it was meant to be!




Look... He toadally DIGS herpetology!!!!!

Quenby Keisler