Heard repeated call at night in ravine
I saw this toad hopping along the stone fence near the pond where the tadpoles were found.
Sitting in dirt next to building
78 degrees, barometer 29.79 and falling
90-second ad libitum continuous focal
Condition: 70 F, Sunny, with few clouds. About 3:30PM.
Toad tadpoles, likely recently hatched, exhibited both still (at rest) and wiggling locomotion behaviors.
Anaxyrus is a subgenus of true toads, genus Bufo, native to North and Central America. Some authors have recognized Anaxyrus as a separate genus, but this makes the rest of Bufo paraphyletic (see Pauly et al., 2004, Evolution 58: 251
