However, this past summer they too seemed to have rebounded. I was delighted. Frogs and toads are colorful, valuable and harmless inhabitants of forests, prairies, rivers, swamps and marshes, and together make up a group of amphibians called anurans. Well, yes there are some basic differences, although scientifically, they are classed as the same. Toads, of course, have dry, warty skin, while a frog's skin is smooth and moist.
Toads have no teeth, while frogs have tiny teeth on both upper and lower jaws.
Toads, with their shorter hind legs, hop, while frogs, with longer hind legs, jump. They are much more difficult to have a relationship with. Both toads and frogs have to return to water to reproduce, most of them breeding in the spring and summer. When the temperature and humidity are just right, the male toads and frogs begin to call. Each species has a distinct breeding call, enticing the females to join them and select a mate.