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Toads
Toads are a dry leathery amphibian. Their bumpy texture helps them to blend in with their environment.
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For the longest time, it was thought that the frogs and the toads were two different kinds of animals. All toad-like species were placed in the family of the toads, Bufonidae. This split was based on the following caracteristics:
*toads have a warty skin, frogs have a smooth skin
*toads have shorter hind legs, frogs longer hindlegs
*toads cannot jump or swim as well as frogs
Since the 80's we know that these caracteristics are spread through all the frogs and toads. There are frogs with a warty skin that cannot jump so well because of their shorter hind legs (Alytes). There are also toads with smooth skin and longer hindlegs (Atelopus). We call this diversity of caracteristics convergent evolution.
Sometimes this change of vison is confusing, because species that were formerly assigned tot the toad-family, are know considered to be a frog, but the name 'toad' is still used in their common name! An example is the famous firebelly toad. This animal is, dispite its name, not a toad, but is considered a toad-like frog.
How fast do cane toads reproduce?
The cane toad female can lay 35,000 eggs at a time and they have become a problem in Hawaii and Australia. The male toads wait for the females and grip the female by the armpits. She releases the eggs and he fertilizes them externally.
Amphibians hear very well. They can even hear the sounds which humans can not.
Where are their ears located?
Looking closely at a frog, one can spot behind the eyes, on the sides of the head, small circles covered with membrane. This membrane is the eardrum. People have it deep inside the acoustic duct; for most of amphibians, it is locate right outside. Sound waves spreading in air or in water cause it to vibrate; the membrane, in turn, transmits the signal through the auditory ossicle to the inner ear, where the auditory receptors are located. From the inner ear, neural impulses are transmitted to the brain where the auditory picture of the environment is formed.
However, not all amphibians have this kind of auditory system.
For instance, limbless amphibians tunneling in wet and warm soil of the tropics have "seismic" hearing and perceive vibration of the ground by the lower jaw; the sound is transmitted to the inner ear by the skull bones. It is the same with some tailed amphibians.
Yes, tomato frogs do make good pets actually i have one myself just make sure that you wash your hands after handling them they can give off very bad tasting mucous when defensive.
How do toads survive the elements?
Toads require at least 3 inches of substrate for burrowing, a shallow dish of water for soaking, a hideout, plant life and live insects. If you go to the pet store the employees can help you purchase the best substrate and supplies, including boxed crickets.
What type of environment do toads need to live in?
wet,cold and having alot of plants to eat and to blah to the blah to the blah
It matters how you define smart. They get there food do they not? They find themselves shelter. They also have quite a personallity, coming frome someone who has had many toads as pets. They have fear just as humans do. As a toad owner i happen to know how to tell the diferennce between feamale and male toads and have found they do not get along. But also two toads of the same gender may be friends or they may have themselves a enemy toad. Even though they are small they are smary anough to have all those feelings just like humans.
- a 11 year old toad trainer and lover
P.S hope that helps
Do you need a light if you have fire belly toads?
well if you want to feed them in the winter use it if not turn the heat down on the lamp or turn it of at noon or when you get home from school!!!!!!!!!!!!!
they usually prefer black ones but not the small ones the big ones ther like a
0.4 cm long
ur toad will love em !!
As late as 1994, five years after the last sighting, researchers still hoped that B. periglenes continued to live in underground burrows, as similar toad species have lifespans of up to twelve years.[5] By 2004 IUCN listed the species as extinct, after an evaluation involving Savage (who had first discovered them 38 years earlier). IUCN's extinction was based on the lack of sightings since 1989 and the "extensive search[ing]" that had been done since without result.[3] Tim Flannery describes the extinction of the golden toad as Costa Rica's first extinction due to global warming,[4] but this is not the only explanation for the loss of the species that has been put forward. Jennifer Neville examines the different hypotheses explaining the extinction of the golden toad in her article "The Case of the Golden Toad: Weather Patterns Lead to Decline". Neville comes to the conclusion that Crump's El Niño hypothesis is "clearly support[ed]" by the available data.[5] IUCN gives numerous possible reasons in its description of the past threats to the species, including "[the golden toad's] restricted range, global warming, chytridiomycosis and airborne pollution".[3] Neville also mentions arguments that an increase in UV-B radiation, fungus or parasites, or lowered pH levels contributed to the Golden Toad's extirpation.[5] It has also been hypothesized that an invasive species, not native to the area, could have caused the extinction. Theorists claim that tourists brought this invasive species to Costa Rica. The years prior to the extinction of the golden toad, tourism grew exponentially in Costa Rica fueled by the new relative stability of the Costa Rican government and improved relations with the United States. Programs such as Peace Corps brought thousands of Americans to Costa Rica in this time period. Specifically, species from cold regions such as Chicago could thrive in warm climates. The introduction of a new species could have had detrimental effects on the small, golden toad populations. B. periglenes would have lacked much variation in genes due to restrictive nature of breeding within the same population. The mutation necessary to survive the new invasive species could have been lacking in B. periglenes. Pictures from one such Peace Corps volunteer, Peter Jude LoPresti, verify over 8 golden toads seen only months before their documented extinction. Invasive species theory could account for the rapidity of the golden toad's extinction
What do cane toad tadpoles eat?
Anything, in quantity. Well, except cane beetles. Introduced to Australia in 1935 as an attempt to reduce the populations of cane beetles, the cane toad Bufo marinus has been an environmental disaster. It has become so widespread and populous mainly because it will eat anything that moves. Insects, earthworms, small frogs and lizards and even rodents and small birds will be eaten. The tadpoles are arguably more damaging than the adults. They form vast swarms, eating everything and causing native fish and frog tadpoles to starve. Toads will eat cane beetles, and this is why laboratory experiments suggested them as a means of biological control. But they will only eat them when desperately hungry and offered nothing else. In a real environment with natural, far more palatable foods - they eat that instead.
No, cane toads do not kill humans. You could pick one up if you really wanted to.
What type of metamorphosis do toads go through?
When the butterfly egg hatches, a tiny caterpillar comes out of it. The caterpillar (also called a larva) feeds and grows, and changes its skin a few times (about 3 to 6 times, four in most kinds of butterfly) until it reaches its largest size.
Each time it changes its skin, we say the caterpillar is in a new instar).
Then the caterpillar of most kinds of butterfly will make a silken pad to hold onto with its hind legs, and many kinds also make a silken belt to hold themselves in place like a safety belt.
Then the larva changes its skin and its shape and turns into a pupa, which does not have any obvious legs or wings. Inside the pupa it grows all the extra things a grown-up butterfly needs.
When that is done, it changes its skin for the last time and out comes a soft, misshapen adult butterfly (the adult also is called the imago). The imago pumps itself up into shape with its own blood and perhaps with some air it swallowed, and hardens its skin to hold its new shape, and that is the end of its metamorphosis.
If nothing goes wrong, the butterfly imago then will find a food plant for its own larvae (one larva, two larvae) to eat, and it will lay new eggs there.
Such a metamorphosis: Egg, Larva (caterpillar with its instars), Pupa, and Imago, is what we call a
Complete metamorphosis.
Some other kinds of insects, such as grasshoppers, do not have a complete metamorphosis -- they do not form a pupa. We say that they have an incomplete metamorphosis, but that is not a very good name, because they complete their metamorphosis to become adults. All that an incomplete metamorphosis means is that they do not form a pupa at any time.
How much does the American toad eat a day?
I feed my americans any thing smaller than them and moves so dont put tinys ones and big ones
What is so unique about the cane toad?
Well the cane toads were actually introduced by the Austrailian government to get rid of the cane magets that were hurting the cane farmers crops. However, the never actually did this and spread rapidly through out the country. They found the solution to the magets years later and got rid of them with pesticide. Also, this doesn't relate to the question, but all the cane toads in Australia originate from the 12 originals that were brought to the country.
They use their back feet which they have alot of muscle strenght in the back legs
What do you do with toad eggs?
Nothing, leave them where they are and nature will take care of the rest.
The tadpole was as small as a fly; it had hardly developed.
