Female larger than male. The trill may last from 6 to 30 seconds. In the spring, male toads go to shallow breeding ponds and emit their trill, usually in rainy weather, providing a mating signal for females. After mating, the female lays approximately 15,000 eggs enclosed in jelly-like strings. The eggs hatch into black tadpoles, which develop into adult toads in two to three years.
Toads feed on insects, earthworms, beetles, and slugs.
They spend the winter buried in up to three feet of soil. And kissing one will not turn it into a prince. However, toad skin is used medicinally in China - it contains the hormone adrenalin. The clever men at Oxford Know all that there is to be knowed. But they none of them know one half as much As intelligent Mr. Toad.