Toads are small, up to 5 cm long frogs with distinctive orange and black spots on their underside.
- For most of the year, they stay in the water.
- On land, they seek refuge under dead wood or stones, where they also hibernate.
- In spring, males float on the water's surface and attract females with a melodic call: uuu-uuu-uuu. This is also how the species got its name.
- Tadpoles feed on algae.
DID YOU KNOW?
- Adult toads cannot stick out their tongues like other frogs, so they do not catch flying insects, but those that fall into the water.
- When toads feel threatened, they arch their backs and display their warningly colored belly.This alerts predators that they are mildly poisonous and therefore inedible.
- The pupils of toads are heart-shaped.
Here’s how frogs develop from eggs:
