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    BBC Wildlife Magazine

    WILD MONTH

    Mar 12, 2020 3 minutes
    By Ben Hoare

    1 | COMMON TOAD

    Get a grip

    Never has the phrase ‘hanging on for dear life’ been more apt. This photograph of a male toad gripping his partner with all his might speaks volumes about the biological imperative to pass on your genes. So powerful is the urge driving this pumped-up amphibian, he might have grabbed any suitable object in range, were no female available. Male toads have been known to seize other male toads, frogs, small fish, tennis balls floating in the water,

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