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

[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).

[Malduroque]

I have to correct a previous assertion of mine: those toads do indeed seem happy.

[BEETLE]

Down at our local pond today there were dozens of Bufo bufo, all male, the females will turn up later. It reminded me that as kids we would catch the males by gently shaking a stick in the water, they would grab hold and could be lifted out. If you use two fingers to gently hold them just infront of their back legs they croak a call that is supposed to let other males know they have made a mistake! I would love to know if the American species do the same.