It’s the most wonderful time of the year! Tadpole season in the northern hemisphere! These common toad tadpoles, Bufo bufo, are travelling in schools in a local pond, eating all the detritus they can find.
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It’s the most wonderful time of the year! Tadpole season in the northern hemisphere! These common toad tadpoles, Bufo bufo, are travelling in schools in a local pond, eating all the detritus they can find.
Asiatic Toad (Bufo gargarizans), family Bufonidae, found across much of East Asia
photograph by Xiaolong Liu
Common toads (Bufo bufo) in amplexus/mating position, in Germany
by Stephan Gehrlein
purple harlequin toad // Atelopus barbotini photographed by abunchoftanks
frogspawn + toad
to YOU bufo is a evil little frog man . to ME hes a regular degular frog who got possesed by the evil tadpole hivemind wizards and forced to pilot them around for 900 years while they tried to find an ultimately powerful power source for their nefarious deeds before his body collapsed around them
Oh. I think I know what this is: Rugby. They're playing rugby. …is this called a scrum, maybe?
today's funky frog of the day: the sakhalin toad (Bufo sachalinensis)!! these friendly fellows live in korea, northeast china, and eastern russia. they were recently declared their own species!
photo © Kim, Hyun-tae