Golden Toads

The Golden Toad is extinct.  Confined to a mountain area of only 10 square kilometres at Monteverde, Costa Rica, about 1000 toads gathered to breed in 1987.  Only one toad was seen in 1988 and 1989 and none have been seen since.  Apart from a brief breeding season, it lead a secretive life, living mostly underground. It was an unusual toad in that males and females differed markedly in colour, males being bright orange and females multi-coloured.  Its extinction is attributed to climate change and, perhaps, disease.

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Tim Halliday

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Paintings and Illustrations of endangered birds and amphibiams