Frogs and toads fill the air with a loud chorus on summer evenings, especially following wet weather. But you may have to see them with your ears! Our house cat, Socks, sits on a window ledge next to ...

The common toad is a rather rotund animal with short legs and an ungainly gait. It certainly doesn’t look like a good tree climber – yet citizen surveys suggest that common toads often climb trees to ...

Common toads, with their heavy-set bodies and short limbs, are regarded as typical terrestrial amphibians. “There is no shortage of papers on common toads; they are a very well-studied species,” says ...