What eats a toad?

The toad is an Aupodian anouure, that is to say without a tail. It is an animal with cold blood with teeth. It is usually considered the male of the frog but it is far from being the case Because they belong to very different species. Unlike the frog, the toad does not jump, walk.

The toad has a fairly unpleasant physique. With the globular eyes, a short and rounded nose, a large head and a bumbled body mounted on short shorts and longer rear legs. His skin, rough and dry, is covered by projections Made up of grainy glands that can secrete a poison. He is able to kill a cat or a small dog. To reject predators and other animals, it emits a bad smell.

His Bava, the breath, his skin and his horizontal pupil represent everything that is most repugnant. As a result, all over the world, many stories and legends have given her negative and frightening images.

Myths, legends and symbols of the toads

The witches or the fascinating principles transformed into Toad are mentioned in many western stories and legends.

Nowadays, medicinal and hallucinogenic properties that some toads have are still used.

• In Central and South America

Due of his hallucinogen and toxic poisonThe toad was one of the pagan religious ceremonies.

In China, the toad is associated with the moon. He should have protected the arms shots.

In Vietnam, he is feared because he is the friend of the God of Heaven and flashes.

Among the pygmes of children, the toad is considered an evil spirit responsible for the installation of death on earth.

Among the bambaras, people believe that, during the dry season, the toad turns into mouse.

The goddess Héqet has a toad. He is associated with the god of Khnoum who is the creator of man, the gods and the planets.

Therefore, the toad is often associated with witchcraft, curses but also to ugliness.

In the Bible, more precisely in the book of Apocalypse or Apocalypse, it represents the bad spirit.

In the Middle Ages, the toad is seen as the connection that leads to the devil. It was even thought that it nourished by tightening the cows and containing a magical stone, the toad, which acts as an antidote to any type of poison.

However, despite its pustling and abject appearance, The animal is not a threat to humans at all. On the contrary, it also proves to be a great ally for your vegetable garden. It is especially useful in fields and gardens.

Currently, the trend is natural. To get rid of insects who shave in the gardens without having to use pesticides, Dame Nature has designed «agricultural auxiliaries». These are the toads. In fact, their food consists of insects, cloports, central and earthworms and above all, snails of snails and caterpillars.

The latter constitute the worst enemies of salads and other vegetables and fruit in preparation. The toads play an important role in the destruction of all types of invertebrates whose existence could be imagined.

Present everywhere: in forests, gardens, marshes, pits, ponds, in the plain and mountains, in the city as in the countryside, this auxiliary is all that is most useful for the protection of salads. A toad consumes a huge amount of small harmful animals.

What eats a toad?

At their hatching, the girins, the toad larvae, feed on aquatic micro-organization called Placton. Arrived in adulthood, the common toad is exclusively carnivorous. Eat insects, snails, snails and even lizards and small frogs.

The toad has nocturnal or twilight habits. Generally It is very active at night. Hunt and nourish, the toad adopts a rather sedentary strategy. This consists in publishing immobile and waiting for the passage of a prey. Sometimes it moves slowly. When he is close enough to his prey, he ranks his protractive language covered by a viscous liquid. The prey glued to the tongue is brought back to her mouth in less than a second.

Without teeth and saliva, the toad crushes its food on the palate. So it swallows it with great efforts. To facilitate the ingestion of his food, the animal returns their eyes to their orbits.

In summer, the toad leads a lonely life. In winter, he gathered with his companions. Since October, he has been looking for a place where he can spend winter.

For lack of natural refuges, the toad dives to a hole with the rear legs. It is in this hole, the depth of which can reach up to fifty centimeters, which will hide for two long months.

He is therefore able to hide in his hole several months, living only on his fatty reserves. It is in the following spring that a normal diet will resume.

General of toads and varieties of toads

The toad is Oviparo and reproduces in the aquatic environment.

There are many varieties of toads. We can mention among others:

• Green toad,
• The toad of magnets,
• The toad lives,
• Bufalo's toad,
• The arboreal toad, etc.

Many people believe that the toad will live underwater. Actually, He spends most of his adult life in the open air. The aquatic environment is used only for reproduction. The rest of the time, the toad evolves into woods, meadows, gardens. Since it is a night animal, it hides under stones, wooden trunks or in a hole during the day. In the evening he leaves his hiding place.

Despite its fairly embarrassing approach, the animal can move very far on the water. To do this, proceed with a small jump of about fifteen centimeters.

Nowadays, due to the excessive urbanization, the toad is the victim of the disappearance of the wetlands, but also of the excessive use of pesticides. The latter pollutes rivers, ponds and poison these Batracians. Without forgetting the machines that crush them hundreds of the roads.

Thousands of toads move to their bridge site, to return from the climatic conditions in favor of awakening and reproduction. So they make a huge movement towards their place of birth. For this return home, they must therefore travel long distances and cross very busy roads. Hundreds, even thousands of them, then perish under the car wheels during the crossings.

Since 1993 the French government has adopted measures to protect toads. With the «Bern Convention», a decree is applied that decides the protection of these animals.

To allow these protectors of vegetable gardens and enemies of the destructors of salad to migrate more easily in their reproductive places, the migration tunnels of amphibians are excavated under the roads that cross important migration paths.