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It's basically a measure of how many tigers, toads, ticks or whatever on average of biomass of various species are around.
These are cane toads in Australia.
(Frogs croaking) Mono Lake is just to the east of Yosemite National Park in California, and it's a favorite habitat of these toads, and it's also favored by U.S. Navy jet pilots, who train in their fighters flying them at speeds exceeding 1,100 kilometers an hour and altitudes only a couple hundred meters above ground level of the Mono Basin, very fast, very low, and so loud that the anthrophony, the human noise, even though it's six and a half kilometers from the frog pond you just heard a second ago, it masked the sound of the chorusing toads.
But then adults step in, and we tell kids not to pick their noses and not to touch the slugs or toads or whatever else they find in the backyard, because those things are gross.
You should feel free to touch as many toads as you want.
The bombardier beetle is no exception: the toads that swallow them can tolerate the caustic spray that Darwin found so distasteful.
But how do the toads survive the experience?
A dozen upper-class people congregate on the lawn of a Florida swamp villa, and all they can talk about is how annoyingly loud the toads are.
What we get here are apathetic, fat toads that look as threatening as a basket of Florida oranges.
Most of the killer animals were actually toads, lizards, tarantulas, snakes, birds and alligators.
Also, Scully's reaction as the toads drop from the sky is priceless.
So then the prince rushes pulling out his sword with makes the magic bounce back making Stepmother and drizella being turned into toads.
For example, limiting invasive species – such as cane toads in Australia, mosquitoes in Hawaii, or rats and mice almost everywhere – could help to restore damaged biomes.
They have been around for billions of years, and have evolved into a bizarre panoply of forms - nematodes that can curl up in a single muscle cell, crustaceans that clamp onto the eyes of Greenland sharks, flatworms that live in the bladders of desert toads buried in the sand for 11 months out of every year.
"Why, there's a ballad that says they put King Rodrigo alive into a tomb full of toads, and adders, and lizards, and that two days afterwards the king, in a plaintive, feeble voice, cried out from within the tomb—They gnaw me now, they gnaw me now,There where I most did sin.
As soon as Sancho had done speaking the nymph in silver that was at the side of Merlin's ghost stood up, and removing the thin veil from her face disclosed one that seemed to all something more than exceedingly beautiful; and with a masculine freedom from embarrassment and in a voice not very like a lady's, addressing Sancho directly, said, "Thou wretched squire, soul of a pitcher, heart of a cork tree, with bowels of flint and pebbles; if, thou impudent thief, they bade thee throw thyself down from some lofty tower; if, enemy of mankind, they asked thee to swallow a dozen of toads, two of lizards, and three of adders; if they wanted thee to slay thy wife and children with a sharp murderous scimitar, it would be no wonder for thee to show thyself stubborn and squeamish.
There he saw fair and pleasant visions, but here I'll see, I imagine, toads and adders.
They squeezed the heads of some with knotted cords till they pierced their brains, while they threw others into dungeons swarming with serpents, snakes, and toads."