Our friend the Eastern Spadefoot Toad lives in the eastern United States from central Florida north into New England, and as far west as the Mississippi river! Like other Spadefoots, they live most of their life hiding in burrows dug with the sharp spades on their hind feet! (photo by Evan Feusi)

Our friend the Wyoming Toad nearly went extinct in the early 1980s. At one point it was estimated that only 25 individuals existed in the wild! Info about conservation efforts are available at www.cmzoo.org/conservation...! (photo by Yinan Li)

Our friend the Pumpkin Toadlet has patches on their back and head that glow under black lights! Their skin and organs contain a neurotoxin called tetrodotoxin! They are also known as Spix's Saddleback Toad and are one of the most common Saddleback Toads! (photo by Aisse Gaertner)

Our friend Inger's Dwarf Toadlet lives in Peninsular Malaysia, Singapore, and parts of Sumatra! They are named after Robert F. Inger, an American herpetologist who was Emeritus Curator at the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago, IL! (photo by Melvyn Yeo)

Our friend the Railroad Valley Toad lives in Nye County in the state of Nevada in the United States! They were once considered an isolated population of the Western Toad but in 2020 they were separated into their own species! (photo by Yinan Li)

Our friend the Oak Toad is the smallest toad in North America, growing to less than an inch and a half long! They live in coastal areas of the southeastern United States, from eastern Louisiana to southeast Virginia and south throughout Florida! (photo by Austin Pursley)

Our friend the Manaus Tree Toad is a tiny toad who lives in the Amazon basin of Brazil! They are named in honor of the Manaos Amerindian tribe that lived in the area of the present-day city Manaus! (photo by Thiago Carvalho)

Our friend the Swat Green Toad is also known as the Batura Glacier Toad and lives in the West Himalayan mountains! Their names come from the Swat Valley in Pakistan and the Batura Glacier in Pakistan, around which they live! (photo by B. P. White)

Our friend the Dodson's Toad lives in several countries in northeastern Africa! During dry seasons they are known to aestivate for long periods in deep fissures in rocks! Aestivation is like hibernation in warm weather! (photo by Paul Block)

Our friend Rhinella veredas is named after the Grande Sertão Veredas National Park where they live, which itself is named after the novel Grande Sertão: Veredas by Brazilian author João Guimarães Rosa! (photo by Reuber Brandão)

Our friend the Chinting Lazy Toad is a rare toad also known as the Chinting Alpine Toad! They are only known to live around Mount Emei in the Sichuan Province of China! (photo by haitongyu)

Our friend the Spiny Slender Toad is a stream toad who lives throughout much of Borneo! They are in genus Ansonia, also known as Stream Toads, because they spawn in fast moving streams and have tadpoles adapted to life in fast-moving water! (photo by Carey Knox Southern Scales)

Our friend the Xinjiang Toad is also known as the Pewzow's Toad, named after the Russian explorer General Michail Wassiljewitsch Pewzow‎! They are a a tetraploid species coming from hybridization between Bufotes latastii and Bufotes perrini! (photo by Alexander A. Fomichev)

Our friend the Peru Stubfoot Toad is a critically endangered toad who lives in high elevations in the Andes of Peru! They are one of a few toads who are known to produce tetrodotoxin, the same kind of toxin found in pufferfish! (photo by Jörn Köhler)

Our friend the Catalonian Midwife Toad was first described as a new species in 2021 when it was separated from the Common Midwife Toad! Like other midwife toads, the male protects the eggs by carrying them until they hatch! (photo by Léo Souillard)

Our friend the Dark-sided Toad lives in Angola, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and Zambia! They are a small toad, only growing to three quarters of an inch long! (photo by Ehren Eksteen)

Our friend the Hurter's Spadefoot Toad lives in the south-central U.S. and possibly in some areas of northern Mexico! They are named after the Swiss-American naturalist Julius Hurter! Like all spadefoot toads, they spend their time in burrows that they dig with their hind legs! (photo by scincus)

Our friend the Sinaloa Toad is named Incilius mazatlanensis, and is named after the city Mazatlán, which is a Nahuatl word meaning "place of deer"! (photo by Sinaloa Silvestre)

Our friend Melanophryniscus spectabilis lives in the Santa Catarina and Paraná states of southern Brazil! They are known for their brightly colored patterns and the large lump on the end of their nose! (photo by Alan Hentz)

Our friend the Serra Do Araçatuba Flea Toad is another tiny from southern Brazil! They are less than half an inch long when fully grown! They are a member of a genus of toads known as Saddleback Toads, named after a saddle shaped bony patch covering their spine! (photo by Luiz F. Ribeiro)

Our friend the Malayan Dwarf Toad is a small, common toad found in a large area including the entire Malay Peninsula and the island of Sumatra! They have been known by many names, such as the Lesser Toad, the Red Small Toad, and the Keel-headed Toad! (photo by Marius Burger)

Our friend Rhinella ruizi is a small toad who lives at high altitudes in the tallest mountains of the Colombian Andes! They are named after the Colombian herpetologist Pedro Miguel Ruiz-Carranza! (photo by Gabriel)

Our friend the Mauritanian Toad is a large toad who lives in northwestern Africa and is also known as the Berber Toad, the Moroccan toad, and the Pantherine Toad! They grow to nearly six inches long! (photo by Samuel Guiraudou)

Our friend the Caucasian Toad lives mostly in the Caucasus area between Russia and Georgia and is a larger, wartier cousin of the European Toad! (photo by Yusuf Bahadır Şahin)

Our friend the Canadian Toad likes to spend the winter underground below the frost line, and create small mounds known as mima mounds that can contain hundreds of toads! (photo by Chris O'Donoghue)

Our friend Steindachner's Toad lives in Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ethiopia, Kenya, Nigeria, Somalia, Sudan, Tanzania, and Uganda! (photo by Ewout Knoester)

Our friend the Incachaca Toad lives in Bolivia and was first described as a new species in 1961! Their scientific name Rhinella quechua is named after the indigenous Quechua people of South America! (photo by Teresa Camacho-Badani)

Our friend the Amboli Tiger Toad is only known from a small area near the village of Amboli in the Western Ghats of India! Females of this species tend to be a muddled brown color, but the males have bright yellow and brown tiger stripes that give them their name! (photo by Avinash Bhagat)

Our friend the Horned Toad lives in Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, and Venezuela! Even though the adults are similar to toads in genus Rhaebo, last year they were separated into their own genus, Adhaerobufo, based on characteristics that are unique to their tadpoles! (photo by Biodiversidad_CAA)

Our friend the Central American Gulf Coast Toad can range in color from nearly black, to a reddish brown, to light brown like our friend here! They mostly live in Central America, but their range extends from Costa Rica all the way to central Texas! (photo by Adam Jackson)

Our friend the Honduras Rainforest Toad lives in northern Honduras! They are mostly a terrestrial species but sometimes like to climb trees! (photo by Josue Ramos Galdamez)

Our friend the Bella Vista Toad lives in Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay, and Uruguay! They are known for digging deep burrows and spending most of their time underground and sometimes visit the burrows of other toads! (photo by Pedro Garabaya)

Our friend the Damaraland Pygmy Toad is a small toad who lives in the Kaokoveld desert and the Waterberg plateau in northern Namibia! (photo by Kyle Finn)

Our friend the Panamanian Granular Toad is somewhat small compared to other toads in genus Rhinella, only growing to just over two inches long! They live throughout the southern side of Panama! (photo by Wendy Dean)

Our friend Brachycephalus coloratus was one of the species of toads included in a 2022 study which concluded that they are terrible at jumping because their heads are too small for their inner ears to work correctly! (video by Essner Jr. et al.)

Our friend the Linanit Dwarf Toad is only known to live in a single place on Mount Murud in Borneo! Their call sounds like a metallic "ping" that is repeated several times! Ping ping ping ping ping! (photo by Pui Yong Min)

Our friend the Fenoulhet's Toad is a small toad who lives on rocky outcrops in the grasslands of north-east of South Africa, eastern Swaziland, Zimbabwe, the Caprivi and western Mozambique! They are also known as the Northern Pygmy Toad and only grow to about 1.5 inches long! (photo by Bart Wursten)

Our friend the Moroccan Midwife Toad lives in northern Morocco in the Rif Mountains and the Middle Atlas Mountains! They are the only North African frog with highly developed parental care, as the male toads carry around fertilized eggs to protect them until they hatch! (photo by Joseph Grosse)

Our friend the Eichwald's Toad is also known as the Talysh Toad! They live in the Talysh and Elburz Mountains in Azerbaijan and northern Iran, along the southern edge of the Caspian Sea! They are named after the Baltic German naturalist Karl Eduard von Eichwald (photo by Parham Beyhaghi)

Our friend the Ciremai Bleeding Toad lives near mountain streams and waterfalls found in mountainous areas of the island of Java in Indonesia! They are known as Bleeding Toads because of bright red patches that appear on their hind legs! (photo by Pierre de Chabannes)

Our friend Melanophryniscus pachyrhynus lives in Brazil and Uruguay! The populations in Uruguay were originally classified as a different species, Melanophryniscus orejasmirandai, but were found to be the same species in 2002! (photo by Martin Abreu, Rocha Naturaleza Uruguay)

Our friend the Fujian Asian Toad lives near rocky, mountain streams in southern and southeastern China! They are the only known toad species to perform sex-reversed inguinal amplexus, where the female mounts the male from behind and holds his waist until her eggs are fertilized! (photo by 钟彦葵)

Our friend Rhinella alata is better known as the Forest Toad! They live in the leaf litter of the forests of Colombia, Ecuador, and Panama! They are described as "exceptionally polymorphic" and come in many different color patterns to help them hide! (photo by Adrien Jailloux)

Our friend the Günther's Toad is an uncommon toad also known as the Rock Toad because they look a lot like the rocky outcrops where they live in the Eastern Ghats and Deccan plateau of India! When they are young they have bright red spots that fade away as they get older! (photo by Ronith Urs)

Our friend the Small-eared Toad lives in the southern Western Ghats of India! They are also known as the Southern Hill Toad! (photo by Abhijith Vijay)

There are many different toads commonly called Leaf Litter Toads! Our friend Rhaebo Haematiticus lives throughout Central America and northern South America and is also known as the Truando Toad and the Blackbelly Toad! (photo by Carlos Ceballos)

Our friend the Oriental Fire-bellied Toad uses a technique called the unken reflex to try to scare off predators! They arch their back and expose their bright red belly as a warning that they are not good to eat! (photo by OmniProgWalrus)

Our friend the Four-digit Toad lives in southwestern Cameroon, southeastern Nigeria, and the island of Bioko in Equatorial Guinea! They are a tiny toad with no ear structures and only four toes! They are the only species in genus Didynamipus! (photo by Václav Gvoždík)

Our friend the Kerinyaga Toad lives in Ethiopia, Kenya, northern Tanzania, and eastern Uganda and was first described as a new species in 1968 by the American herpetologist Ronalda Keith! They are sometimes referred to as Keith's Toad! (photo by Anthony Karani)

Our friend the Siona Toad lives in the leaf litter of the forests of Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru! They can be distinguished from other similar toads in their genus by the yellow spots on their belly! (photo by Alex Bentley)