American toad
Chefo letlalong la yonaE ja: DikokoanyanaE chefang, eseng e nang le chefoThe American toad is a common toad found across the eastern half of Canada and the United States. It lives in forests, grasslands and gardens, and it breeds in shallow ponds and pools. It matters because it eats many insects and other small creatures, and its skin releases a substance that can irritate eyes and harm small animals such as dogs.1

Ho e tseba jwang
- Adults are usually 5 to 9 cm long.1
- Skin colour varies from yellow to brown to black, and can be solid or speckled. It changes with habitat colours, humidity, stress and temperature.1
- Spots on the back contain only one or two warts, and the lower legs have enlarged warts.1
- The parotoid glands are the same colour as the surrounding skin.1
- Breeding males give a high trill lasting 6 to 30 seconds that sounds like a ringing telephone.1
Hangata e ferekanngwa le: Fowler's toad, Woodhouse's toad, the Canadian toad, the southern toad and the Gulf Coast toad can look similar. Fowler's toad never has a spotted belly, and its cranial crests touch the parotoid glands. The American toad's crests almost never touch the glands. The Canadian toad's crests join to form a raised bump, which the American toad's do not. The southern toad's crests form two distinct knobs.1
Matla a chefo
Letlalo la yona le a chefa. Ho kotsi ho e ama, ho e nyeka kapa ho e ja.
Chefo ya yona (e chefang ha o e ama kapa o e ja) e etsang?
The American toad does not inject venom. Its parotoid glands secrete bufotoxin, a poisonous substance that makes the toad unpalatable to predators. It is a mild poison compared with other poisonous toads and frogs, but it can irritate human eyes and mucous membranes and is dangerous to smaller animals such as dogs when swallowed.1
E kotsi hakae ho batho?
Kotsi ho batho: E bobebeJwaloka ho hlajwa ke notshi kapa ho fetang moo. Ha e na kotsi ho batho.Bufotoxin is a mild poison. It can irritate human eyes and mucous membranes, and it is dangerous to smaller animals, such as dogs, if they swallow it.1
E etsang ha e tshohile?
When threatened, the toad releases bufotoxin from its parotoid glands, which makes it unpleasant to eat.1
Haeba motho a e amme kapa a e jele
- Haeba motho a amme e nngwe: hlatswa matsoho hantle mme o se ke wa ama mahlo kapa molomo. Haeba ngwana kapa phoofolo ya lapeng e e nyeditse kapa e e jele: letsetsa setsi sa chefo (poison centre) kapa nomoro ya tshohanyetso.
Kamehla letsetsa nomoro ya tshohanyetso pele (112, 000, 911). Ena ke tataiso e akaretsang ya thuso ya pele, hase keletso ya bongaka. Metheo ya thuso ya pele
Dula o bolokehile
- O se ke wa ama, wa tshwara kapa wa tena phoofolo ya naheng, leha e le e nyenyane, le leha e shebahala e robetse kapa e shwele.
- E fe sebaka. Ha o kopana le yona, dula o kgutsitse, kgutlela morao butle mme o e tlohele e tsamaye ka tsela ya yona.
- Haeba o e amme kapa o e jele: o se ke wa hohla mahlo kapa molomo, hlatswa matsoho mme o fumane thuso ya bongaka.
Ha e o batle. Chefo ya yona e teng feela hore ho se be le letho le e jang. Ho eketsehileng ka ho dula o bolokehile
Hokae lefatsheng?
E kgolo hakae?
E telele hakae?
e telele jwaloka diboloko tsa ho bapala tse 3 moleng
e ka matha metara e 100 ka metsotswana e 180 (motho ya potlakang ka ho fetisisa o hloka 9,6)American toad e kgolo hakae ha e bapiswa le WENA?
Ke dipalo feela ka hara sebatli sa hao. Ha ho letho le bolokwang kapa le romelwang kae kapa kae.
E potlaka hakae?
Dintlha
Some American toads have lived for over 30 years, and one female was reported to be living healthily into her late 30s.1
Toads avoid mating with their siblings. Males' calls seem to help females recognise their close relatives.1
Toad tadpoles produce toxic chemicals in their skin that discourage some predators. Most fish learn quickly to avoid eating them.1
Their skin colour can change with their surroundings, humidity, stress and temperature.1
Tadpoles swim in very shallow water, often among thick grass, and gather in schools during the day to reduce predation.1
Toadlets often leave the water together in large groups and migrate to shaded forest areas near where they were bred.1
Bakeng sa ditsebi tsa chefo
- Lebitso la saense
- Anaxyrus americanus
- Sehlopha
- Dihoho tse chefang, mampotsana le di-newt
- Lelapa
- Bufonidae2
- Tatelano
- Anura
- Dikontinente
- Amerika Leboya
- Masea
- Females lay two long ropes containing 2,000 to 20,000 small black eggs, each 1 to 2 mm across, surrounded by jelly. The eggs hatch into tadpoles in 3 to 12 days.1
- Nako ya bophelo
- e ka bang dilemo tse 301
- Kotsi ho batho
- 1 / 5: E bobebe3
Moo dintlha di tswang teng
- American toad (Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0))
- Anaxyrus americanus (iNaturalist): mabitso le tlhophiso.
- Venom Wiki: boemo ba kotsi, boholo bo tlwaelehileng le kakanyo ya lebelo ke tsa rona. Bona kamoo re di balang ka teng: Kamoo re lekanyang kotsi ka teng.
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