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Can YouTube Give Us Toad Videos?

I'm trying out Google's ability to embed relevant YouTube videos right on a web page.  I have no idea if the video player seen below will actually give us videos related to "toads" and "toad", but we'll see...

Watch the latest videos on YouTube.com

Dez The Beer-Drinking Cane Toad With Man Boobs

In this video on YouTube, Dez, the animated cane toad, speculates about what might have happened to his friend Baz.

Scenarios include becoming road kill and an unfortunate run-in with a lawn mower.

While it's animated, this video is not for kids...

http://ie.youtube.com/watch?v=t3ENUqV5-bw

I'm Back, With Toad Jokes

It's been a looooooonnnnnggggggg time since I posted last here.  Maybe I'll be able to get back into this.

Given the nature of this blog (shoes & toads), I can't believe I never posted this joke before...

Q)What kind of shoes do frogs wear??
A)Open-Toad Sandles

Q)What happens when frogs park illegally?
A)They get toad.

Toad Cocktails, Get Drinkin' Green Man!

Here are some recipes for toad cocktails... drink up!

Horny Toad

Drink Ingredients:
1 part triple sec
1 part Kahlua® coffee liqueur
1 part cream

Hot Toad

Drink Ingredients:
3 parts Rum, Aged (of Cuban Type)
2 parts Apricot Brandy
2 parts Lime Juice
1 part Simple Syrup

Shake with ice and strain to a chilled cocktail glass.

Hop Toad

Drink Ingredients:
1 ½ oz. light Rum
1 ½ oz. Apricot Brandy
2 tsp. Fresh lime juice
Shake all ingredients together with cracked ice and strain into chilled cocktail glass.

Cranberry Toad
Drink Ingredients:
2 oz      Cranberry Juice
2 oz      Orange Juice
1 oz      Vodka (more of lest to your liking)

Help your pooch "just say no" to toads

Here is arecent hallucinogenic toad story that follows up on our earlier posts about Homer Simpson licking a toad and Story from NPR about a dog who is addicted to sucking hallucinogenic toads...

The Frogs and Toads of North Carolina Field Guide and Recorded Calls

Identifying frogs & toads correctly takes askill and years of slogging around in swamps. To help people identify and learn more about the frogs and toads calling from the woods, around ponds and wetlands and in their backyards, the North Carolina Wildlife Resources Commission has a new educational product, The Frogs and Toads of North Carolina Field Guide and Recorded Calls.

The 88-page field guide, with CD, which sells for $15, features audio calls & 120 full-color photographs that illustrate the 30 frog and toad species native to North Carolina. Detailed descriptions of each species simplify identification and range maps identify where they are found in the state.

Michael Dorcas, associate professor of biology at Davidson College and a herpetologist, co-wrote the book with Jeff Beane, collections manager with the N.C. Museum of Natural Sciences, Steven Price, a research coordinator with Davidson College Herpetology Lab, and Sarah Cross Owen, a former herpetologist with the Wildlife Resources Commission.

To purchase the guide, visit www.ncwildlife.org.

Save the toads in Edington!

Article in This is Wiltshire in the U.K. may help us save a few, innocent toads on their way home from work...

Excerpted from the article:

Julie Swabey, a district and county councillor who lives in Edington, is trying to form a toad conservation group and get road signs put up in the village.

Between February and early May large numbers of toads have to cross village roads as they make their way to a pond by the Priory Church.

Cllr Swabey said: "I'm a wildlife fanatic and something needs to be done to stop these toads being run over.

[we need people] who will volunteer to come out when it starts to drizzle or rain and pick the toads up and move them to the other side of the road so they can make their way to the pond.

"It would be really good if we could get some children involved because they are a very important part of the village, and also people from other areas would be welcome to come along if they wanted to help out."

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"Unfortunately when a car comes along toads just freeze and that's how so many of them get killed," she said.

"Toads tend to come out after dusk which unfortunately coincides with the rush hour."

Some toads are dying trying to have sexy explosions

Just read this post by A.K. Siva on his/her blog called The Lighter Side of Life that sadly points out that there are toads that are dying from sex in the Dutch village of Montfort. 

The source of the post is found at http://www.stunning-stuff.com/read-weird-news-stories/121.html?ci=s&st=2&pa=1&kw=toads (note, the story also uses the image I posted for Crazy Toad Sex).

The story notes that while this can happen from time to time, there is an exceptional rate of death-by-sex at this particular pond.  There must be something special in that water!  Just might go get me some.

Of course, I'm never happy when a toad brother or sister dies, even when they go out like this...

Toad Queen, but does she have a compatible king?

Just found this very cool picture/graphic of a "Toad Queen" on Worth 1000...

The artist is "ozplasmic", check out some other graphics by ozplasmic

Are any of these suitable mates?

 

 

Some thoughts on what toads eat

Just found a string of posts on Yahoo Answers for the following toad-related question:

"I found a toad in my yard are toads nocternal and can they eat anything else besides worms and flys??"

One funny typo in an answer there...

"they feed on any incest they find so dont worry"

I'll dig up some more in-depth toad feeding info later (Just started a toad links typelist on the blog today - check out left, bottom margin)