Wyoming Toad (Bufo baxteri) image
Wyoming Toad
Wyoming Toad (Bufo baxteri)
The Wyoming toad (Bufo baxteri) was a common sight on areas of the Laramie Plains, Albany County, Wyoming, into the early
1970s but the populations crashed in the middle 1970s.
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This toad is a glacial relict known only from Albany County, Wyoming.
Males attract females to breeding sites by their calls. Eggs, in gelatinous strings, are laid from mid-May to early June, and the
larvae usually transform by mid-July.
As is the case with other amphibian species, spraying of insecticides to control mosquitoes, changes in agricultural practices,
increased predation, disease, and climatic changes have been suggested as causes of the decline, but nothing definite has been
identified (see
http://www.usgs.gov
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