Quote Originally Posted by limnologist View Post
Yes! Exactly! I believe the Eastern American Toad (sorry I should have specified this before because the eastern is less toxic than the regular, and the eastern is the species I am talking about) does not have deadly effects on many animals. I don't have to worry much about parasites or diseases because I breed the toads myself. And I have encountered said poison from my toads and never experienced any pain or illnesses (unless it got in my eyes of course) and have been doing research and think that certain bufotoxins are like the brown-recluse's venom in that it only effects people who are "allergic" to the venom. It's a very interesting subject and I think more research is to be done on it!
Bufo toxin is interesting. Especially with how its toxin strength varies among the toads, what I mean is that one toad species toxin is stronger than the others. For example, the cane toads bufo toxin is deadlier than the southern toads bufo toxin. The question to that is why is it stronger, would it most likely be from what they eat? If that was the case captive bred toads and frogs probably wouldn't have any toxin because they haven't eaten anything to give them that said toxin. Unless the toads naturally develop theirs unlike the poison dart frogs which get theirs from the ants in central and south america.