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"Fears more than 1,000 toads may have died after Welsh water firm drains reservoir"

#Wales #Toads #Animals

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/apr/20/fears-1000-toads-may-have-died-after-welsh-water-company-drains-reservoir

Fears more than 1,000 toads may have died after Welsh water firm drains reservoir https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/apr/20/fears-1000-toads-may-have-died-after-welsh-water-company-drains-reservoir

#Wales #environment #water #wildlife #toads

Fears for 1,000 breeding toads after reservoir drained by water company https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c8ejjd86p73o?at_medium=RSS/Mastodon

#environment #water #wildlife #toads

Fears for more than 1,000 toads after reservoir drained by water company https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c8ejjd86p73o?at_medium=RSS&at_campaign=rss

#environment #water #wildlife #toads

Implementing simple, low-cost modifications to agricultural water points—such as raising #cattle troughs—prevents invasive cane #toads from accessing vital water during dry seasons, effectively halting their survival and spread in semi-arid regions.
#Ecology #Conservation #AgriculturalScience #Zoology #sflorg
https://www.sflorg.com/2026/03/eco03302601.html

"Help a toad across the road – and five more ways to save these endangered amphibians"

#Amphibians #Toads #Animals

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/mar/09/help-a-toad-across-the-road-and-five-more-ways-to-save-these-endangered-amphibians

Daily sketch #3!

Remember, you can support me here → https://www.patreon.com/c/artyoyo/, so I can continue to create what I love!

#sketch #digitalart #elfgirl #toads

🐸✨ Every spring, hundreds of thousands of #toads begin a perilous journey back to their ancestral breeding ponds.

Since 1985, their population has dropped by 41%, but there are simple ways we can help, including assisting them across busy roads and building log-pile "hibernacula" in the #garden.

👉 https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/mar/09/help-a-toad-across-the-road-and-five-more-ways-to-save-these-endangered-amphibians

#amphibians #animals #wildlife #conservation #science #nature #education #gardening #migration #environment

Unicursal TOADS CATS SLIMY THINGS COME HITHER Propaganda from Hermetic Library Office of the Ministry of Information

https://hermetic.com/information/toads-cats-slimy-this-come-hither/index

#propaganda #AleisterCrowley #toads #cats #rejoice #SlimyThings #ComeHither

Officer protects police horses, missing toucan returns from desert, lots of funny animal photos, and cute puppies and hot firefighters.

While commuting to the office today, I met two ladies who volunteered to collect toads (Bufo bufo) migrating from the area to one of the local lakes. All of that is very German... not the toads, but the fence, and the volunteers.
#toads #spring #cycling

obtained from: https://www.tumblr.com/56kilobits/798794874183991296/ive-been-obsessed-with-this-video-so-i-downloaded?source=share #frog #frogs #toad #toads #PipPeppingRepost

The Surinam toad has one of the strangest birth methods in the animal kingdom. Babies erupt from a cluster of tiny holes in their mother’s back.

@rainmaker1973-m.bsky.social‬ @globalmuseum #toads #birth

Teeny orange #toadlet found in #Brazil. A unique mating call led biologists to this newly discovered pint-sized #amphibian. #frog

Link for more photos and information of this 1 cm long beauty: https://www.popsci.com/environment/new-orange-frog-brazil/

@shadowdogdesigns.bsky.social‬ #globalmuseum #Toads #animals

East Sussex, England, a home-made sign ‘Toads at Night’. No panoramic views just a narrow country road flanked by flood plain. The sign was positioned just before the road entered a wood. A place of magical & mysterious energies where what seemed to be the sound of vibrating colour connected in a strange simultaneous anchoring and dislocation. The texture of the statement ‘Toads at Night’ seemed to hold the essence of all I felt about this place.
#Toads #originalart #contemporarypainting
#Paintings
#Art
#lindasgoluppiart

Minashi-by-the-Sea (The Toad-Things of Leng)

#Wss366 #MastoPrompt 9/4 #MicroPrompt 8/27-29

Kurotsuki Kaibyō #yawned over her cup of strong Celedawn tea. The rich scent of #cardamom and cloves tickled her nose. She would need its invigorating properties, for she had a long night ahead of her and an even longer day.

Soon the moon would set, and it would be time to be about her business. Tomorrow would be the Festival of Lime Blossoms on the Water, and all the people of Minashi-by-the-Sea would be celebrating.

Except for the guards of the High Citadel of Perpetual Petals. The #Toads of Leng cared not for blossoms, scents, or even festivals. Their only loves were the repellent offal they were fed and dancing to the thin, insidious piping that emerged from the lofty tower on moonless nights.

Tonight, on cat feet, she would locate where the #Toad-things of Leng performed their hideous, obscene midnight capers. She would not be one of their flayed, #skinned victims that appeared floating in the harbor as dawn broke upon its lime blossom flotilla. And then tomorrow, when the #Toads were at their sleepiest and the citizens of Minashi-by-the-Sea frolicked amid the lime blossoms, she would #zip into the tower and be gone before anyone knew of her pilfering.

#MicroFiction #TootFic #Serial #NMPrompts #NMV366 #NMMP #LordDunsany #Pastiche #Cats #Otherkin #Catgirl #Neko

Unique #tepui #frogs face new perils https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/oct/14/lost-world-venezuela-unique-tepui-amphibians-in-peril-as-climate-warms

"The tabletop mountains in #Venezuela are sheltered, otherworldly ecosystems. #Tepuis are home to some of the world’s rarest and strangest creatures: #toads that roll into balls instead of hopping, frogs that dwell in #CarnivorousPlants, and #amphibians only ever seen by a few people. To adapt to #ClimateChange, #animals and #plants are slowly climbing up altitudes. But for the frogs on the tepuis, there is no up for them to go to"

#Toads symbolize #environmental crisis at #Vichama #archaeological site
https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/climate-energy/toad-sculpture-peru-reveals-climate-driven-collapse-ancient-city-2025-08-29/
All the more reason to protect Darwin's #frog from #climatechange my take here
https://nkozphoto.com/index.php/2025/07/14/airlifting-darwins-wildlife-legacy-to-safety/ #amphibians #Climate #archaeology #darwin #evolution #science #peru #chile #chiloe

New Curtin University research has found #invasive cane #toads are on track to reach Western Australia’s #Pilbara region within the next 10 to 20 years, threatening to cause widespread losses among #native species and significant cultural and economic harm.
#Ecology #sflorg
https://www.sflorg.com/2025/11/eco11112502.html

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I'm a #zoologist living in Berkshire with my wife and two young boys.
Into being outside as much as possible, peering at weird wildlife. Things like #swifts #toads #nightjars #bats #hedgehogs #hornets #moths #mustelids plus #comedy #art #music #rugby #tennis #golf #photography #mortimerandwhitehouse.
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Scientists Create Gene-Edited ‘Peter Pan’ Tadpoles That Could Control Invasive Cane Toads Through Cannibalism.
To combat one of Australia’s most troublesome species, researchers are developing hungry tadpoles that never grow up
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/scientists-create-gene-edited-peter-pan-tadpoles-that-could-control-invasive-cane-toads-through-cannibalism-180986416/
@SmithsonianMag #Canetoads #toads

A secret war between cane #toads and #parasitic lungworms is raging across Australia https://theconversation.com/a-secret-war-between-cane-toads-and-parasitic-lungworms-is-raging-across-australia-223461

A biological invasion modifies the dynamics of a host–#parasite arms race https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rspb.2023.2403

"When the first #CaneToads were brought from South America to #Queensland in 1935, many of the #parasites that troubled them were left behind. But deep inside the #lungs of at least one of those pioneer toads lurked small nematode #lungworms."

Vous voulez voir un très petit crapaud ?

#crapaud #toads

Those making a living off harvesting the potent venom of the Sonoran desert toad are getting caught in the crossfire of narco traffickers.
https://www.vice.com/en/article/pkawev/mexican-cartels-dmt-psychedelic-bufo-alvarius-toad-hunters?at_medium=Social%20media&at_campaign=Mastodon
#toads #psychedelics #mexico #tripping #CARTELS #Narcos #Bufoalvarius

🐸💛 Researchers in #Austria and #India discovered that male Asian common #toads turn neon yellow for approximately two days during #monsoon season, when stress hormones trigger pigmented cells beneath their skin to rearrange.

👉 https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/for-two-days-each-year-these-drab-brown-toads-turn-dazzling-neon-yellow-and-scientists-finally-know-why-180987587/

#amphibians #biology #evolution #research #science #nature

spring things:
-frogspawn
-toads the colour of new leaves
-the snail mail ends its hibernation and goes off into the world! 🙂🦉
#zines #frogspawn #snailmail #toads #illustration #comics

Cane Toad and prey
Art Print
Artist: Roger Smith
https://www.artpal.com/thedigitalconsul?i=226317-783
#canetoad #toads #art #prints #RogerSmith

It is Wednesday my dudes
#treefrogs #toads
Hyla versicolor, Anaxyrus americanus

Today I'm writing about the first descriptions of toad sex.

Chinese herpetologist Ch’eng-chao Liu, writing in the Peking Natural History Bulletin in 1932, was certainly thorough . . .

#zoology #herpetology #toads #HistSTM #HSTM #HistSci @histstm #histsex #history #histodons @histodons #sex #queer #queerhistory #lgbtq #Pride #PrideMonth #PrideMonth2023

Beyond beauty, colour serves important functions for #frogs and #toads around the world
https://communities.springernature.com/posts/beyond-beauty-colour-serves-important-functions-for-frogs-and-toads-around-the-world paper: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-023-43729-7

"The study documents for the first time the importance of colour-based #thermoregulation, #UVprotection, and #pathogen resistance in #anurans... Thermoregulation and #UV-protection was generally of greater importance in temperate regions, and pathogen resistance was of greater importance in the #tropics."

Went to water my seedlings and I got a surprise. A Toadflower! Tight squeeze for Mr Toad. Granted its very hot today. About 92F. He enjoyed being sprinkled. #toads #gardening @gardening #nature #PeaceableKingdom

They put Toadomination on Xbox! And for cheap!! Fans of roguelikes and/or twin stick shooters, do NOT sleep on this one. It's a BLAST- I played it some on Steam. Didn't think the day would come I'd see it on consoles! Another one I've wanted to try for a while, Cavity Busters, is now in the Microsoft store too.

Discovering other amazing looking roguelikes, too - The Lost and the Wicked, Replikator, Undergrave, The Excrawlers, Remedium: Sentinels, and Soul Shifter all look wild as hell.

New roguelikes ftw! (Now I gotta check the Nintendo eshop for all of these.)

#roguelike #roguelikes #xbox #Toadomination #TwinStickShooter #TwinStickShooters #toad #toads #TheLostAndTheWicked #SoulShifter #TheExcrawlers #Undergrave #RemediumSentinels #Replikator #games #gaming #NewGames #IndieGames

Unicursal TOADS CATS SLIMY THINGS COME HITHER Propaganda from Hermetic Library Office of the Ministry of Information https://hermetic.com/information/toads-cats-slimy-this-come-hither/index

#propaganda #halloween #samhain #toads #cats #rejoice #SlimyThings #ComeHither

New insights into the #evolution of color patterns in #frogs and #toads https://phys.org/news/2022-11-uncover-insights-evolution-patterns-frogs.html

Paper by Sandra Goutte et al.: https://academic.oup.com/mbe/article/39/11/msac235/6783210 #genomics #amphibians

Many #anurans have a light stripe along their back, which, when observed from above, creates the #OpticalIllusion that the animal is split in two halves and confuses visually-oriented #predators. Little is known regarding its evolution or genetic origin.

So happy that "Somebody Needs Coffee" tied for first place in the 11/15/2023 contest "Out Of Place." My thanks to contest administrator, Jorge Soler, and everyone who voted for my photo. Congratulations to the other winners!!

At my website: https://fineartamerica.com/featured/somebody-needs-coffee-lois-bryan.html

#art #photography #frogs #peepers #cute #funny #toads #giftideas #LoisBryan

Minashi-by-the-Sea (The Toad-Things of Leng)

#Wss366 #MastoPrompt 9/4 #MicroPrompt 8/27-29

Kurotsuki Kaibyō #yawned over her cup of strong Celedawn tea. The rich scent of #cardamom and cloves tickled her nose. She would need its invigorating properties, for she had a long night ahead of her and an even longer day.

Soon the moon would set, and it would be time to be about her business. Tomorrow would be the Festival of Lime Blossoms on the Water, and all the people of Minashi-by-the-Sea would be celebrating.

Except for the guards of the High Citadel of Perpetual Petals. The #Toads of Leng cared not for blossoms, scents, or even festivals. Their only loves were the repellent offal they were fed and dancing to the thin, insidious piping that emerged from the lofty tower on moonless nights.

Tonight, on cat feet, she would locate where the #Toad-things of Leng performed their hideous, obscene midnight capers. She would not be one of their flayed, #skinned victims that appeared floating in the harbor as dawn broke upon its lime blossom flotilla. And then tomorrow, when the #Toads were at their sleepiest and the citizens of Minashi-by-the-Sea frolicked amid the lime blossoms, she would #zip into the tower and be gone before anyone knew of her pilfering.

#MicroFiction #TootFic #Serial #NMPrompts #NMV366 #NMMP #LordDunsany #Pastiche #Cats #Otherkin #Catgirl #Neko

Introductory toot.
Hello Mastodon.
I'm a #zoologist living in Berkshire with my wife and two young boys.
Into being outside as much as possible, peering at weird wildlife. Things like #swifts #toads #nightjars #bats #hedgehogs #hornets #moths #mustelids plus #comedy #art #music #rugby #tennis #golf #photography #mortimerandwhitehouse.
Am a #rejoiner if such a thing exists?

Dislike #tories

Website: www.dmackdimages.co.uk

We own two cats, photos of which might occasionally appear here.

Introductory toot.
Hello Mastodon.
I'm a #zoologist living in Berkshire with my wife and two young boys.
Into being outside as much as possible, peering at weird wildlife. Things like #swifts #toads #nightjars #bats #hedgehogs #hornets #moths #mustelids plus #comedy #art #music #rugby #tennis #golf #photography #mortimerandwhitehouse.
Am a #rejoiner if such a thing exists?

Dislike #tories

Website: www.dmackdimages.co.uk

We own two cats, photos of which might occasionally appear here.