August marks the last month of winter in South Africa, and, as temperatures begin to rise, activists in Cape Town prepare for a truly unique conservation event. Every year at this time western leopard ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. Endangered western leopard toads have lost habitat to urban development in Cape Town, and crossing roads during breeding season adds another danger ...

DISCLAIMER: Please do not try to handle frogs or toads you find outside. Their skin is extremely delicate, and some species of both secrete poison. Be very cautious for your safety and for the ...

An endangered-species toad traveled from South Africa to Baltimore in a Hopkins scientist’s sneaker and ended up in her gym locker. Nancy Connell, a retired microbiologist and senior scholar at the ...

After getting a few comments perhaps suggesting I might be writing too much on birds, I am switching gears this week to another vertebrate, although these are cold-blooded. While I have a special ...

Spring choruses of frogs and toads are in full swing. As temperatures warm, frogs and toads emerge after a long, cold winter and begin their annual serenade. Males call out, advertising their fitness ...

This is exactly how we introduce frogs to the younger students who come to amphibian-related field trips at Woodland Dunes. Frogs are probably one of the more widely known animals that live in a ...