I. With sticky toe pads, 

 climbs a tree 

 or window pane. 



2. Loud speaker 

 One inch long, 

 heard one mile. 



3. Shell headed toad 

 lives in burrow, 

 its head the stopper. 



4. Defense stand of toads and frogs: 

 head low, eyes flat, body puffed. 



5. Burrowing toads 

 wedge headed, barrel bodied. 



6. Each egg hatches 

 in a pool of fluid in skin 



7 An amphibian of over 

 two million years ago. 



Fig. 34.1. Shapes and ways of frogs and toads. /, the common "tree toad," 

 Hyla versicolor (length 2 inches). 2, spring peeper, Hyla crucifer (length, one 

 inch); its resonating vocal sac is a third the size of its body. 3, shell-headed toad, 

 Bufo empusus of Cuba, whose head fits perfectly as a stopper in a tubular burrow. 

 4, the defense, fright reaction of a toad, Bufo calamita. 5, some burrowing toads 

 have sharp narrow, often bony snouts, others have blunt bony heads. 6, the 

 Surinam toad, Pipa pipa, of South America is a purely aquatic toad as its webbed 

 hind feet testify. Its eggs are spread over the spongy skin of its back and the young 

 ones develop there in individual pouches till they are minute toads. 7, an ancient 

 amphibian (eryops) of North America, a partial restoration from the fossil. These 

 animals dragged their bodies after the fashion of present day alligators. 



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