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Colorado River toad

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toad toxins and eggs by humans has resulted in several reported cases of poisoning, some of which resulted in death. The first reported death associated with the ingestion of ch'an su was that of a young woman who consumed it as a prescribed (by a Chinese herbalist) Chinese herbal remedy mixed into a
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toad in his possession, and charged with possession of a controlled substance after they determined he intended to use its secretions for recreational purposes. In Arizona, one may legally bag up to 10 toads with a fishing license, but it could constitute a criminal violation if it can be shown that
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The breeding season starts in July, when the rainy season begins, and can last up to August. Normally, 1–3 days after the rain is when toads begin to lay eggs in ponds, slow-moving streams, temporary pools or man-made structures that hold water. Eggs are 1.6 mm in diameter, 5–7 mm apart,
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and drainage ditches, and under water troughs. The Colorado River toad is known to breed in artificial water bodies (e.g., flood control impoundments, reservoirs) and as a result, the distributions and breeding habitats of these species may have been recently altered in south-central Arizona. It
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is unlawful in those states. Collecting these toads is thought to cause stress to them, in particular during the process of "milking" where collectors rub the toads under the chin to cause it to secrete the poison in the form of a milky substance that is then scraped from the body of the toad.
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absorption across its abdomen. Toads in the family Bufonidae have a region of skin known as "the seat patch", which extends from mid abdomen to the hind legs and is specialized for rapid rehydration. Most of the rehydration is done through absorption of water from small pools or wet objects.
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tea (an approximately 100ml bowl). Immediately upon ingesting the ch'an tea, the woman experienced vomiting, difficulty breathing, and gastric tenderness, which spurred her husband to take her to the emergency room, where she died two and a half hours after drinking the tea.
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When vaporized, a single deep inhalation of the poison produces strong psychoactive effects within 15 seconds. After inhalation, the user usually experiences a warm sensation, euphoria, and strong visual and auditory hallucinations, due to 5-MeO-DMT's high affinity for the
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Due to the rising popularity in collecting this toad, compounded with other threats such as motorists running over them, and predators such as raccoons eating them, U.S. states such as New Mexico and California have listed them as "threatened" and collecting
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is clear about the law in Arizona: "An individual shall not...export any live wildlife from the state; 3. Transport, possess, offer for sale, sell, sell as live bait, trade, give away, purchase, rent, lease, display, exhibit, propagate...within the state."
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have learned to pull a toad away from a pond by the back leg, turn it on its back and start feeding on its belly, a strategy that keeps the raccoon well away from the poison glands. Unlike other vertebrates, this amphibian obtains water mostly by
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or ear drum. By the corner of the mouth there is a white wart and there are white glands on the legs. All these glands produce toxic secretions. Its call is described as, "a weak, low-pitched toot, lasting less than a second."
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that people should not handle or lick the toad. Despite the warning's wide coverage in media, the post was made humorously and the Park Service has no records of people licking or otherwise harassing the toads in parks.
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Efforts to breed the toads in large quantities to offset their losses in the wild are criticized as potentially attracting predators to these areas, and creating a disease vector for pathogens such as
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published an article about a California teacher who became the first person to be arrested for possessing secretions of the toads. Bufotenin had been outlawed in California since 1970.
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interview, "There’s a perception of abundance, but when you begin to remove large numbers of a species, their numbers are going to collapse like a house of cards at some point."
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Ko, R. J.; Greenwald, M. S.; Loscutoff, S. M.; Au, A. M.; Appel, B. R.; Kreutzer, R. A.; Haddon, W. F.; Jackson, T. Y.; Boo, F. O.; Presicek, G. (1996).
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is or was indigenous – California, Arizona, and New Mexico – legally allows a person to remove the toad from the state. For example, the
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The Colorado River toad can grow to about 190 millimetres (7.5 in) long and is the largest toad in the United States apart from the non-native
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Shibata, Yuki; Takeuchi, Hiro-aki; Hasegawa, Takahiro; Suzuki, Masakazu; Tanaka, Shigeyasu; Hillyard, Stanley D.; Nagai, Takatoshi (2011).
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Among the notable people who have spoken publicly about their experiences with the psychoactive agents in the poison are boxer
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Krebs-Thomson, Kirsten; Ruiz, ErbertM.; Masten, Virginia; Buell, Mahalah; Geyer, MarkA. (December 2006). "The roles of 5-HT
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and encased in a long single tube of jelly with a loose but distinct outline. The female toad can lay up to 8,000 eggs.
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Gergus, Erik W. A.; Malmos, Keith B.; Sullivan, Brian K. (1999). "Natural hybridization among distantly related toads (
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secretions have been known in Mesoamerica for many years; however, others doubt that this art provides sufficient
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Bufotenin is a chemical constituent in the secretions and eggs of several species of toads belonging to the genus
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Sullivan, Brian K.; Malmos, Keith B.; Movin, T. (1994). "Call variation in the Colorado River Toad (
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receptors in the effects of 5-MeO-DMT on locomotor activity and prepulse inhibition in rats".
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areas throughout its range. It is semiaquatic and is often found in streams, near springs, in
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Aphrodisiacs through the Ages: The Discrepancy Between Lovers’ Aspirations and Their Desires
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Robert Villa, who serves as president of the Tucson Herpetological Society, said in a 2022
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Contemporary reports indicate that bufotenin-containing toad toxins have been used as a
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art", which some authors have interpreted as indicating that the effects of ingesting
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genus of toads); both of these chemicals belong to the family of hallucinogenic
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A substance found among the toxins the toad excretes when it is threatened,
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one is in possession of this toad with the intent to smoke its secretions.
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remain unclear, but immunologically, it is similarly close to the
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in 1983 which explained how to extract and smoke the secretions.
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that may be potent enough to kill a grown dog. These
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The toads received national attention in 1994 after
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Index

Incilius alvarius


Conservation status
Least Concern
IUCN 3.1
NatureServe
Scientific classification
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Eukaryota
Animalia
Chordata
Amphibia
Anura
Bufonidae
Incilius
Binomial name
Girard

Synonyms
Baird
toad
Mexico
southwestern United States
exude
toxins
psychoactive
cane toad
parotoid gland
tympanum

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