The Puerto Rico crested toad is critically endangered so it's in immediate peril and the science resolved we can solve this ... with air freight. Thousands of tadpoles are being airlifted into Puerto Rico to help save the species. (ABC: Soaring Species: Endangered Baby Toads Fly to Puerto Rico)
Part of the intrigue is they call the creature a 'technicolor native toad' in Puerto Rico and there are many ways to describe any toad I ever saw but technicolor would never have presented itself for that. As toads go, this is at least different.
While far less than gorgeous to us, this toad must be movie star beautiful in the world of amphibians.
Even so, if you want a technicolor toad and no idea why you ever would but the place to go is Costa Rica.
This looks remarkably like a frog but it's a Variable Harlequin Toad. If the amphibian world had a Cyndi Lauper, this would be the one and the Variable Harlequin Toad is a hit in the Rockhouse.
The history of the Puerto Rico crested toad is a parody of environmental mismanagement since check out how it got into trouble in the first place.
The toads — their hides a mix of brown, red, green and yellow — thrived on Puerto Rico until sugar growers introduced a foreign toad they hoped would eat pests that feed on sugar cane. The introduced toad ate the native toad's young and took over its habitat, while human development eliminated much of the native toad's range.
Part of the intrigue is they call the creature a 'technicolor native toad' in Puerto Rico and there are many ways to describe any toad I ever saw but technicolor would never have presented itself for that. As toads go, this is at least different.
While far less than gorgeous to us, this toad must be movie star beautiful in the world of amphibians.
Even so, if you want a technicolor toad and no idea why you ever would but the place to go is Costa Rica.
This looks remarkably like a frog but it's a Variable Harlequin Toad. If the amphibian world had a Cyndi Lauper, this would be the one and the Variable Harlequin Toad is a hit in the Rockhouse.
The history of the Puerto Rico crested toad is a parody of environmental mismanagement since check out how it got into trouble in the first place.
The toads — their hides a mix of brown, red, green and yellow — thrived on Puerto Rico until sugar growers introduced a foreign toad they hoped would eat pests that feed on sugar cane. The introduced toad ate the native toad's young and took over its habitat, while human development eliminated much of the native toad's range.
- ABC
Classic. That type of environmental incompetence is so extreme it usually takes political interference. Unknown how it came to happen in Puerto Rico.
Central America has its share of Toad Notoriety since Nicaragua is the source of the cane toad which was stupidly introduced into Australia which was never part of its range. Years later, there are cane toads all over the damn place and they have been hugely destructive to the native ecosystem but the Australians can't get rid of them.
Even better, you may have heard of this cane toad because it's the one in which licking the skin of the animal induces some type of hallucinogenic buzz.
(Ed: you can get a Toad Buzz and go trippin'?)
Fo' real, my brother man. There's some measure of real truth to it and this resulted, in one example, with the Church of the Toad of Light, inevitably in California ... but it gets much stranger. (WIKI: Psychoactive toad)
Since the ganja is having some deleterious effects, maybe the Toad Buzz is for me. People have called me many things but never a 'toad licker' so maybe it's time.
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