FROGS AND TOADS

Young Students Learning Library;      626 words ......before there were any people on Earth, frogs and toads were hopping around. Frogs and toads are classified as amphibians, animals that spend...land. There are many different kinds of frogs and toads, from the tiny tree frog to the African giant...

Thousands of Toads Hop Into Montana Town

AP Online;  August 14, 2005 ;     228 words ......SANDY, Mont. Thousands of quarter-sized toads have invaded this north-central Montana...the entrepreneurial spirits of some. The toads started showing up in the southeast portion...I have no idea how many thousands of toads are in town," said Charlie Foussard. "At...

Holy exploading toads, Batman!

Telegraph - Herald (Dubuque);  May 4, 2005 ;     241 words ...BERLIN (AP) - More than 1,000 toads have puffed up and exploded in a Hamburg...the pond's water and body parts of the toads have been tested, but scientists have been...bacteria or virus that would cause the toads to swell up and pop, said Janne Kloepper...

Exploding toads in a Hamburg pond baffle scientists

AP Worldstream;  April 27, 2005 ;     245 words ......04-27-2005 Dateline: BERLIN More than 1,000 toads have puffed up and exploded in a Hamburg...the pond's water and body parts of the toads have been tested, but scientists have been...bacteria or virus that would cause the toads to swell up and pop, said Janne Kloepper...

Bagful of toads for pot of beer.(WORLD)

New Zealand Herald (Auckland, New Zealand);  March 1, 2007 ;     369 words ......increasingly desperate battle against cane toads -- a beer bounty for the capture of the invaders. Cane toads, despised by most Australians for their...between 100 million and 200 million cane toads are hopping their way across Australia...

NSW: Mutant cane toads threaten Perth and Adelaide

AAP General News (Australia);  March 28, 2007 ;     489 words ......Australia) 03-28-2007 NSW: Mutant cane toads threaten Perth and Adelaide EDS: Embargoed...Simon Kirby SYDNEY, March 28 AAP - Cane toads have long been spreading through the Australian...previous predictions about the spread of cane toads through Australia, which were based on...

Birds May Be Behind Exploding German Toads

AP Online;  April 29, 2005 ;     531 words ......Hamburg, Germany lake. More than 1,000 toads have puffed up and exploded in a Hamburg...the pond's water and body parts of the toads have been tested, but scientists have been...bacterium or virus that would cause the toads to swell up and pop, said Janne Kloepper...

Bufo toads pose danger to pets

Honolulu Star - Bulletin;  March 18, 2005 ;     700+ words ......Animal Hospital, "but make no mistake, bufo toads can kill some dogs in a matter of minutes...much more discriminating and don't bite toads as often as dogs do, but if they do, take...bony head with ridges over their eyes. Toads can grow to be 4 to 9 inches long, weigh...

Youths locked up for killing toads with blowtorch.(News)

Daily Record (Glasgow, Scotland);  January 11, 2000 ;     251 words ...TWO teenagers who tortured seven toads to death with a blow torch were locked...police officer called to the scene said the toads were making a screaming noise. Brian Osborne...warned by the clerk to pay attention. Seven toads died and another 19 were left in agony...

`Cane Toads,' the film, leaves no bitter taste

Chicago Sun-Times;  September 25, 1988 ;     514 words ......Festival was about an assault by sex-mad giant toads munching their way across Australia. This...cult film. It was a documentary. "Cane Toads: An Unnatural History" begins in the 1930s...attack the grubs, farmers imported 101 cane toads from Hawaii. Alas, as a deadpan scientist...

Exploding toads baffle German scientists

Chicago Sun-Times;  April 28, 2005 ;     183 words ...BERLIN -- More than 1,000 toads have puffed up and exploded in a Hamburg...The pond's water and body parts of the toads have been tested, but scientists have...bacteria or a virus that would cause the toads to swell up and pop, said Janne Kloepper...

Shots should get toads hopping; Injections are designed to ensure that a...

Telegraph - Herald (Dubuque);  February 28, 2006 ;     633 words ......needles to inject some of the nation's rarest toads with synthetic hormones. The hormones...to awaken the libidos of the 53 Wyoming toads in Jackson's care, just in time for spring...extinction 12 years ago. "You can get the toads to breed without the hormones, but with...

NT: Cane toads probably in Kakadu

AAP General News (Australia);  March 7, 2001 ;     379 words ......General News (Australia) 03-07-2001 NT: Cane toads probably in Kakadu By Rod McGuirk DARWIN...Commission director Bill Freeland said the toads had probably followed the flooded Katherine...yet but we would anticipate finding cane toads there." Darwin-based naturalist Ian Morris...

On the evolution of toads in the French Renaissance*.

Renaissance Quarterly;  March 22, 2004 ;     700+ words ...Symbolic toads, like real ones, must adapt to their environment or die. The evolutionary development of toads as symbols of monarchical power in France...context. According to a medieval legend, toads had been the insignia of the French monarchy...

Toads out of a hole.(News)

Sunday Mirror (London, England);  December 23, 2001 ;     90 words ......complained it would block a path used by toads. Councillors turned down the application...Forest, Hants, after hearing that 4,000 Bufo toads used the route on their way to a nearby...organised crossing patrols to ensure the toads make their way safely to and fro on their...