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warty diplomats of the mud who carry poison and zero apologies
means Squat, dry-skinned amphibians, cousins of frogs, that tend to live on land and secrete toxins through their warty skin.
from From Old English 'tāde' or 'tādige,' a word whose deeper roots are lost — it has no clear cousins in other Germanic languages, so where it ultimately hopped from is genuinely unknown. The familiar form 'toad' grew out of these older spellings over centuries of English use.
- shoulder venom
- toxin glands behind their eyes drop predators dead
- tongue physics
- sticky strike faster than you can blink
- licking myth
- some species' secretions are genuinely hallucinogenic
- true vs frog
- toads are just frogs with rougher publicists
- deep freeze
- some survive winters partially frozen solid
cane toad — invasive species that killed native australian wildlife after introduction in 1935, now over 200 million in australia
golden poison frog — deadliest amphibian on earth, single specimen has enough toxin to kill 10 humans, found in colombia
sonoran desert toad — secretes 5-meo-dmt, a powerful psychedelic compound, native to arizona and mexico