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A common toad risks its life on a road in Bristol at night <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n
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Lionel Kelleway is in Surrey looking for spring toads in Living World<\/a><\/em><\/em><\/p>\n\n

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During mild spells in March, common toads stir from their winter torpor and begin plodding \u2013 not hopping, as frogs do \u2013 towards ancestral breeding pools. Most move on damp evenings with an air temperature of at least 7\u00b0C, but roads represent a lethal obstacle. On busy nights, Toads on Roads patrollers in high-vis help hundreds of the sluggish amphibians across the tarmac. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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