so we're talking toads now are we? would you believe i am a closet herpetologist?
Bufo alvarius is the Sonoran Desert toad, sometimes called the Colorado River toad. they are 10-20 cm, large bodied, with tough, olive to rust colored skin. they have enlarge white pores called "tubercles" that secrete there unique brand of toxin, which is produced in the two enlarged paratoid glands located behind their eyes. they are found from southern Arizona to southeastern California, and down into Mexico. they are not protected, nor given any CITES listing (this is by no means an endorsement to go hunting, that would be downright stupid, there are a few poisonous toads out there as well, you know.) i have a few pictures of them, but they can't be posted here in pd, so use your imagination.
i'm guessing that's a good bit more information then any of you cared to hear, but hey, you hit on a subject i know well.
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Let us alone. What pleasure can we have
To war with evil? Is there any peace
In ever climbing up the climbing wave?
All things have rest, and ripen towards the grave
In silence- ripen, fall, and cease:
Give us long rest or death, dark death, or dreamful ease.
--Tennyson, The Lotos-Eaters