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Bufo microscaphus X Woodhousii hybrid. Larger size, rough skin, dorsal pattern, and trace of cranial crest dichotomizes this individual from true B. microscaphus.
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During rainy night extraordinary amount of dead and live toads spotted on roads intersecting orchards. Unfortunately, many gravid females were crushed, forcing eggs onto pavement. A conscious effort was made to detect breeding choruses, but none heard. Toads view stalking garden snails, which carpeted roads. In cultivated areas this toad overwhelmed its counterpart, Bufo cognatus. The latter was more often encountered in undeveloped plots of land surrounding orchard.
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Found burrowed into moist sand, beneath cardboard in forsaken irrigation canal.
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Conspicuous cranial crest and black tubercle on hind feet. Above creamy with gray and brown dorsal blotching; often in symmetrical; below whitish. Some specimens showed reddish dorsal warts. When held expressed squawking release call. Only males detected, all similar length: SVL 70 mm (2 in.). During rainy night, many dead and live toads detected on roads intersecting orchards and urban structures. Although common, fewer were detected than its counterpart Bufo woodhousii. Most were seen on roadways paralleling small-unspoiled parcels of land. A conscious effort was made to detect breeding chorus, but nothing was heard.
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Male Anaxyrus cognatus.
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Male Anaxyrus cognatus calling.
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Male Anaxyrus cognatus calling.
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