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Asian Toad
By peace | April 5, 2008
Family Bufonidae: Asian Toad, Bufo melanostictus
This is probably the most familiar member of Singapore’s amphibians. The true toads are characterised mainly by their warty skin, and also by usually possessing a pair of paratoid glands behind the eyes on the sides of their head.
On this day, we went for weekend mass. After that, we walked home. On the way home, I saw a toad. I quickly took out my camera and I took a few pictures of it. The toad was not afraid of us. It stayed there for as long as we would want to take photograph of it.
This toad reminds me of my childhood days in which my father used to catch frogs for me to eat when I was young, at Tuas. We used to go Tuas for fishing. My father caught fish, my brothers and I would swim at the reservoir. The seaside was where I spent most of my childhood days. I love the smell of the sea. I used to pick up seashells, starfish, mussels, horseshoe crabs and even picking up live fishes!
Asian Toad’s eggs are laid in gelatinous strings; invertebrates; oviparous, terrestrial; nocturnal; Contrary to popular belief, toads do not ‘blow poisonous gas’ at people, although they may appear to do so by inflating their body when threatened.
My father used to catch as many as 40++ number of frogs. My mother would cook them with sesame oil and ginger. They were so delicious.
Animals are all I see these days. It is really such a miracle. This same place where I saw the frog was the same place where I saw the hanging worm and I fell down from the bicycle. On last Thursday 3rd April 2008, I saw a orange-brown chameleon. That was the previous place where I saw the mutated worm some time ago.
There were so many ’strange’ encounters and stories I heard from my parents. I would post them at some other date.
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