Is this a Frog or a Toad?

[Tidybuoy]

I've been bringing home from work some little frogs to populate my pond. I'm wondering if these are frogs or toads. When I put them in the pond, they stay for about 5 min and then leave. I've found a few in the bushes but never in the pond. When I look on Google, it says that toads don't jump - these little baby's jump about 3' but maybe that is just because they are babies.

I'm specifically talking about the little frogs in my photos - they are about the size of a quarter (or smaller).

[Seahawk]

Kiss it.

Then you'll know

I have no idea!

[Shaun @ Tru6]

Frog is always the right, though potentially imprecise, correct answer since toads are a subset of frogs.

When I was a kid living on a dirt road in the country I had frog and toad and turtle farms. Sold box turtles to city folk for 50 cents at tag sales down at the barn off the main road in town.

[masraum]

I don't think they all live "in" water, but may spend some time in water here and there, right.

Maybe check some of the critters on
https://kingcounty.gov/en/legacy/services/environment/animals-and-plants/biodiversity/defining-biodiversity/species-of-interest/herps

https://wdfw.wa.gov/species-habitats/amphibians-reptiles#frogs

https://www.pugetsound.edu/puget-sound-museum-natural-history/biodiversity-resources/amphibians-reptiles/washington-amphibians

[fastfredracing]

Id guess a frog, but really have no idea.
I dug a small pond 2 years ago at home , and wholy cow, did the frogs move in. There are hundreds of them . I enjoy their song, and hearing them plop into the water any time I walk near .

[Steve Carlton]

"Okay. Joke's over. Cut it out!"

One of my favorite funny things from long ago, when it ran on Flash and you could choose the speed.

[Bill Douglas]

Great pond. Nice planting and styling. Maybe these guys just want to be in the proximity of the water but not in it.

[Dixie]

I believe this is The Toad.

[Steve Carlton]

The Toad was good in Starman, too.

[masraum]

Originally Posted by Steve Carlton

The Toad was good in Starman, too.

Man, haven't seen that in a looooong time!

[rfuerst911sc]

I may be wrong but I always thought frogs had smooth skin and toads had bumpy skin .

[masraum]

Originally Posted by rfuerst911sc

I may be wrong but I always thought frogs had smooth skin and toads had bumpy skin .

I believe that is the general rule. I believe that would make the big fella in the first photo a toad.

I think the guy (2 photos) that's clinging to the leaf partially in the water is a frog, possibly a tree frog the way he's clinging to the leaf.

https://aqua.org/stories/2023-09-27-mistaken-identities-frogs-vs-toads

[flatbutt]

Originally Posted by rfuerst911sc

I may be wrong but I always thought frogs had smooth skin and toads had bumpy skin .

^Yup. Plus frogs keep their skin moist toads don't.

[Sawyer911]

The little guy hanging on the leaf looks like a Greys Toad.

We have some here in the Carolinas. When I was seasonal there would be dozens with thousands of eggs/tad poles and mini toads to clear out of the pool.

They would stay out of the water most of the time but would take a dip to breed and birth. We would find them clinging under the umbrellas, deck chairs, deck boxes sometimes the house.

Sawyer

[craigster59]

An old man was sitting on a park bench when a frog hopped up and said "Hello sir! I may look like a frog but I'm actually a beautiful Princess. A wicked witch put a spell on me and if you kiss me I'll turn back into a Princess and make wild passionate love to you!".

The old man reaches over, picks up the frog and starts to put it in his pocket.

The frog says "Wait, wait, what are you doing? Don't you want me turn back into a Princess and make wild passionate love?"

The old man says "To tell you the truth, at my age I think I'd rather have a talking frog!".

[masraum]

Originally Posted by craigster59

An old man was sitting on a park bench when a frog hopped up and said "Hello sir! I may look like a frog but I'm actually a beautiful Princess. A wicked witch put a spell on me and if you kiss me I'll turn back into a Princess and make wild passionate love to you!".

The old man reaches over, picks up the frog and starts to put it in his pocket.

The frog says "Wait, wait, what are you doing? Don't you want me turn back into a Princess and make wild passionate love?"

The old man says "To tell you the truth, at my age I think I'd rather have a talking frog!".

LOL!

[GH85Carrera]

Originally Posted by flatbutt

^Yup. Plus frogs keep their skin moist toads don't.

That is the major difference.

When we put in our Koi pond, the wisdom was to let it run for a month or more before we put in any Koi to allow some alga to grow. The toads found that pond in days, and had an orgy. We had a huge mass of tadpoles. Once they changed into tiny little toads we would go out each night and gather up 100 or so toads the size of a pencil eraser in a bucket.

I took them a mile south to a creek, and I sang born free and poured them out. That would go on for days. No way was their enough food in our yard, and the creek was their best chance.

Now, 20 years later, the toads just appear like magic, and start singing. There is several cycles of orgies and lots of tadpoles, but the Koi eat most of them. Each year we have a few dozen little baby toads in the yard, and they manage to get to the neighbors yards and our front yard.

Last year we actually had one frog, with wet skin singing. It also just showed up.



All those black specks are tadpoles.

The funniest question one neighbor asked is where did we buy the toads. They are part of the wildlife and we can't and control them at all. I have no doubt many of our neighbors hear the toads singing at night in the spring.

The pond also brought in a lot of blue tailed skinks, birds, and dragoon flies.

[The Synergizer]

If you lick it, and then wake up three days later in a drainage ditch without any clothes on it was probably a toad.

[masraum]

Originally Posted by The Synergizer

If you lick it, and then wake up three days later in a drainage ditch without any clothes on it was probably a toad.

ROFLMAO!

That's quite the image. Maybe better to have a couple of beers with a neighbor and then bet the neighbor they won't lick it and find out if the neighbor ends up naked in a ditch 3 days later.

[HobieMarty]

We have a fat little toad that lives in our side yard. I see it every night when I take our Yorkie outside before going to bed.

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