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American Toad (tadpoles)

Bufo americanus

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The female toad lays a string of eggs, shown in image two, which are fertilized as they pass from her body. After mating, the adult toads move far away from the water. Image one shows the eggs after hatching called Tadpoles, they are small and black. Thousands of them are in this small pond.

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