American Toads Are Wild Fun!
#frogs #toads #herping See them laying and fertilizing the eggs. The American toads (Anaxyrus americanus) are in the frog family and in full force, just in time for herping! Everything you want to see and know is in this video. Identification, singing and courtship, disputes and combat, release calls and even thei release of poison from their paratoid glands. You will see amplexus and fertilizing of the eggs, too. They are so loud and can be easily distinguished from Fowlers toads. The vernal pools and creeks are filled with them now. They used to be taxomed as Bufo americanus but it has been recently changed to Anaxyrus americanus.