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   The Colorado Sun ☀️ (coloradosun@mstdn.social)'s status on Friday, 16-Aug-2024 06:31:38 JST The Colorado Sun ☀️

   Colorado wildlife officials are celebrating some long-awaited good news — the mountain toads are making tadpoles!

   For seven years, biologists have been toting tadpoles to high-elevation bogs and ponds in a massive effort to save the inch-long boreal toad. And for the first time at a mountain wetland, they’ve discovered that those transplanted toads are making their own babies in the wild.

   📷 Judy Walgren, Rocky Mountain News via Denver Public Library
   ➡️ Read more: https://coloradosun.com/2024/08/13/boreal-toads-breeding/