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unusual facts about toad



Angelmouse

It was narrated by David Jason who also voiced Danger Mouse, Count Duckula, Toad in The Wind in the Willows, Hugo in Victor and Hugo, The BFG and Father Christmas in Father Christmas and the Missing Reindeer.

Bombinin

In molecular biology, the bombinin family of antimicrobial peptides includes the bombinin and maximin proteins from Bombina maxima (Giant fire-bellied toad).

Bufo cryptotympanicus

Known commonly as the earless toad, it is found in southern China (Guangxi and Guangdong provinces) and northern Vietnam (on/near Mount Fansipan).

Bufotenin

Bufotenin was first isolated, from toad skin, and named by the Austrian chemist Handovsky at the University of Prague during World War I.

Campus High School

Recent Productions include The King and I, EAT: It's Not About Food, Where the Lilies Bloom, The Pajama Game, The Surprising Story of the Three Little Pigs, and Rehearsal for Murder, A Year With Frog & Toad, and Meet Me in St. Louis.

Carl B. Koford

Also the Eastern puna mouse (Punomys kofordi) and the Coastal Leaf-toad Gecko Phyllodactylus kofordi were named after him.

Chad Clark

Clark is currently working with producer and former Nelly Furtado guitarist Mike K and All-American Rejects keyboardist Kevin "Toad" Saulnier in a new group.

Chaunus amabilis

It appears that populations of this toad in the area surrounding Provincia Loja have been severely affected by human activities.

Convex-tailed horned toad

The convex-tailed horned toad (Xenophrys caudoprocta) is a species of amphibian in the Megophryidae family, endemic to China, and is only known from the type locality, Tianping Mountain, Sangzhi County, in Hunan.

Cotigao Wildlife Sanctuary

Animals in the sanctuary include the flying squirrel, slender loris, Indian pangolin, mouse deer, four-horned antelope, Malabar pit viper, hump-nosed pit viper, white-bellied woodpecker, Malabar trogon, velvet-fronted nuthatch, heart-spotted woodpecker, speckled piculet, Malayan bittern, draco or flying lizard, golden-back gliding snake, and Malabar tree toad.

D. minutus

Dendrophryniscus minutus, a toad species found in Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guyana, Peru, Suriname and possibly Venezuela

D. Wayne Mitchell

Selected performances include Edgar Allan Poe in The Death of Edgar Allan Poe (2010), Frog in A Year With Frog and Toad (2009), George in The Daemon of Darby Castle (2009), Scrooge in A Christmas Carol (2008), B7 in The Head That Wouldn't Die (2007), Estragon in Waiting for Godot (2003), and originating the role of The Abbot in The Witch of Greythorn.

Daniel Webster Turner

Singer-songwriter Glen Phillips of Toad The Wet Sprocket is a great-great-nephew of Gov. Turner.

Diamonds and Toads

When Fanny arrived home, she told her story to her mother and disgusting toads and vipers fell from her mouth with each word.

Duttaphrynus cyphosus

Duttaphrynus cyphosus, called also projective-occiputed toad is a species of toad in the Bufonidae family, known from Tibet (China) near the Assam (India) border.

Eastern Spadefoot

Pelobates syriacus or eastern spadefoot, a toad found in Eastern Europe and the Middle East

F. C. Ricardo

Colonel Ricardo was said to have been Kenneth Grahame's inspiration for Toad of Toad Hall in Wind in the Willows, as he drove round the village in a yellow Rolls-Royce and would offer lifts to any residents he saw.

Frog and Toad

Frog and Toad are Friends was the recipient of a Caldecott Honor award; it was also one of the "Top 100 Picture Books" of all time in a 2012 poll by School Library Journal.

Gastrophryne olivacea

olivacea was once considered a subspecies of the eastern narrowmouth toad, G. carolinensis, and when it was granted full species status it was divided into two separate subspecies for a time.

Glandular horned toad

Glandular horned toad or Jingdong spadefoot toad (Xenophrys glandulosa) is a species of amphibian in the Megophryidae family found in Yunnan in China, in Nagaland in northeastern India, and in northern Kachin State, Myanmar.

Here Today, Tomorrow Next Week!

The name of the album was inspired by Mr. Toad from the famous children's book by Kenneth Grahame The Wind in the Willows.

HuaChanSu

HuaChanSu (bufo bufo gargarizans) is a traditional Chinese medicine extracted from the skin of the Bufo toad that is believed by some to slow the spread of cancerous cells.

Iain Stirling

After being spotted at a gig, Iain has since presented the CBBC Channel along with his canine sidekick Hacker T. Dog from the CBBC TV show Scoop, and other sidekicks including Dodge the Dog, 'The Toad of Wisdom', and 'Pig With 'Tasche'.

Jingdong horned toad

The Jingdong horned toad or Jingdong spadefoot toad (Xenophrys jingdongensis) is a species of amphibian in the Megophryidae family found in Yunnan and Guanxi in China.

John Wozniak

On June 6, 1997, at the John Anson Ford Theatre in Hollywood, Woz joined Toad the Wet Sprocket on stage during the band's encore, trading verses with Toad frontman Glen Phillips, to sing a cover of David Bowie's "Ziggy Stardust".

King Creosote

Anderson also contributed to the Cold Seeds collaborative album along with Frances Donnelly of Animal Magic Tricks, and Neil Pennycook and Pete Harvey from Meursault; which was released on the Edinburgh-based indie label Song, By Toad Records.

2010: He contributed to the Cold Seeds collaborative album along with Frances Donnelly of Animal Magic Tricks, and Neil Pennycook and Pete Harvey from Meursault, which was released on the Edinburgh-based indie label Song, By Toad Records.

Large-spined Bell Toad

The Large-spined bell toad (Bombina fortinuptialis) is a species of toad in the Bombinatoridae family.

Manfred Niekisch

Manfred Niekisch studied biology at the University of Cologne/DE and obtained his PhD (Dr. rer. nat.) at the University of Bonn/DE with a study on the dispersal strategies of the yellow-bellied toad.

Mapledurham House

It is also reputed to have been the inspiration for E. H. Shepard's illustrations of Toad Hall for Kenneth Grahame's The Wind in the Willows, although this is also claimed by Hardwick House.

Mario Party 8

Mario Party 8 has fourteen playable characters: Mario, Luigi, Toad, Princess Daisy, Yoshi, Birdo, Princess Peach, Toadette, Wario, Waluigi, Boo, Dry Bones, Blooper, and Hammer Bro., with the latter two being unlockable.

Miyako Endō

Princess Peach, Toad, Morton Koopa Jr., and Wendy O. Koopa in Super Mario's Snow White, Super Mario's Momotarō, and Super Mario's Issun-bōshi, all three by the Amada Printing and Processing Company

Mormon Mountains

The Mormon Mountains are home to several different species of lizards, and ground snakes, toads and bullfrogs can be found in the region.

Omicron Persei

Omicron Persei is perhaps best known from the animated television series Futurama, where it is the solar system of the Omicronians- a race of giant horned toad creatures.

Pregnancy test

This was called the Bufo test, named after the toad genus Bufo, which was originally used for the test.

Pseudepidalea

Pseudepidalea brongersmai - Brongersma's toad, Tiznit toad (Algeria, Morocco, Western Sahara)

Scutiger pingwuensis

Scutiger pingwuensis is a species of toad in the family Megophryidae known commonly as the Pingwu lazy toad and the Pingwu alpine toad.

Shuicheng County

Shuicheng County is home to two amphibian species that are not known from anywhere else: the horned toad Xenophrys shuichengensis and Shuicheng salamander (Pseudohynobius shuichengensis).

Sicilian green toad

demonstrated that this Sicilian taxon has a distinct mitochondrial haplotype differing in this respect from all other circum-Mediterranean green toad species.

Tadpole

The name "tadpole" is from Middle English taddepol, made up of the elements tadde, "toad", and pol, "head" (modern English "poll").

The Breakfast

On Dec. 31, Spears played his final show as The Breakfast's bassist at Electric Company in Utica, N.Y. At Spears's second-to-last show two nights prior at Toad's Place in New Haven, CT, Giangreco joined The Breakfast for four songs to close the performance, including a stellar version of one of the band's most highly regarded songs, Mooboo's Voodoo (Episode 2), and then a cover of Emerson, Lake & Palmer's "Karn Evil 9", with Spears on lead vocals.

The Master of the Monolith

...and I read, too, of the lost, grim black cavern high in the hills where the horrified Turks hemmed a monstrous, bloated, wallowing toad-like being and slew it with flame and ancient steel blessed in old times by Muhammad, and with incantations that were old when Arabia was young.

The Wolf Among Us

One of the Fables that he frequently contacts is Mr. Toad and his son TJ (Toad Jr.), who live in a run-down apartment building nearby.

As the game opens, the player is introduced to the The Woodsman who lives in the same building as Mr. Toad, and Faith and Prince Lawrence, characters from the Allerleirauh/Donkeyskin fables.

Toad Road

Banker first began working on Toad Road in 2008 and cast Jones as Sara, a college student addicted to drugs that becomes fascinated with the legend of Toad Road.

Tomorrow Blue

Tomorrow Blue is the second album by the Switzerland rock band of the Toad released in 1972.It was the second Toad album engineered by legendary British producer Martin Birch.

Tunbridge Wells Sand Formation

It is particularly well exposed throughout the region between East Grinstead, West Sussex, and Tunbridge Wells, Kent, at localities such as; Stone Farm south of East Grinstead; Chiddinglye Rocks near West Hoathly; Toad Rock, Bull’s Hollow and Happy Valley west of Tunbridge Wells; and Harrisons Rocks, Bowles Rocks and High Rocks near Crowborough.

Wyoming toad

Future conservation of the Wyoming toad in the wild is heavily dependent on eradicating chytrid fungus (Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis), which is probably the biggest threat to the species' survival.


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