Don't put your hand in the puddle...

[Kurt]

I have never witnessed anything like this. Wild frogs have a tencency to shut when I approach them, never mind them approaching me in any way.

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I have never witnessed anything like this. Wild frogs have a tencency to shut when I approach them, never mind them approaching me in any way.

I know this was crazy. I showed other people this as they came to watch and the toads jumped up on them as well. I have a lot more pictures of this. What is even more amazing is that they would leave the puddle to come up to humans... Like I said, one followed my girlfreind and another left the puddle to visit my son.

[Ebony]

Maybe you are turning froggy.

That's just hilarious. maybe females are so scares in the area and so they are looking for any sort of companions.

I am interested to know how easy it was to get them off your hand? Those nuptial pads work?

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Maybe you are turning froggy.

That's just hilarious. maybe females are so scares in the area and so they are looking for any sort of companions.

I am interested to know how easy it was to get them off your hand? Those nuptial pads work?

I think it was the lack of females (only 2) but they were in a small 5 foot x 5 foot puddle. They had quite a good grip on my fingers. you could feel them squeezing and pulsing. When you try to pry one arm off, they clench up and hold on tighter. Once separated from my fingers they would quickly swim away and jump on other males.

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Here are a few more pictures. As you can see, the one on my thumb would not let go. I had to shake him off.

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Once the male toads saw another one mounting something, they would be alerted and come over to knock the other one off. That's why there was always two over by my hand.

[John]

This happens all the time. They will embrace almost anything. I have a photograph of toads with bullfrogs and toads with inanimate objects. I have a photo of British toads in a toad ball (8 or more toads all around the same thing).