Why Do the Toads Cross the Road? It's Mating Season in Philadelphia:
- Most spring evenings since 2009, hundreds of volunteers...have taken turns manning the barricades in the Roxborough section of the city, armed with an unusual city permit to close off sections of two streets when the toads hit the roads. The mission: to prevent them from being squished by cars.
- The American toads are migrating from their winter shelters in the woods of a nature preserve to an abandoned reservoir across the street, where they mate and lay eggs. Their tiny offspring return to the woods after several weeks, continuing the cycle—if they make it alive. The roads close for returns, too.
Read all about it here. [Too bad there's no Toad Cam...]
