The frogs and toads on our place have gone missing during the ongoing drought. This is not new, for the population of these creatures has fluctuated from year to year since we moved here in 1986.

Common toads, with their heavy-set bodies and short limbs, are regarded as typical terrestrial amphibians. “There is no shortage of papers on common toads; they are a very well-studied species,” says ...

Click PLAY to hear mating calls from Cameroonian frogs in quarantine at Cal Academy: [jwplayer config="QUEST Audio Player" mediaid="59563"] On a recent June evening, herpetologist David Blackburn of ...