Happy National Amphibian Week from one of our favorite lil guys: the Yosemite Toad! The Yosemite Toad is a federally threatened species that calls our park home, so we work with Yosemite National Park and the San Francisco Zoo to rehabilitate this species to be able to thrive in the wild. Due to environmental factors, including climate change, many Yosemite Toad tadpoles dry up before they are able to develop into toads.
This spring, we spent the day at the San Francisco Zoo to prepare a cohort of Yosemite Toads to be rehabilitated back into the park. These toads were collected as eggs in Yosemite by NPS and have been raised at the SF Zoo to ensure that they can be healthy and strong enough to survive in the wild. To get them ready to go back to Yosemite, they’re being set up with PIT tags - Passive Integrated Transponders. PIT tags are tiny tracking tags that don’t require power and allow scientists to track individual animals overtime.
Here are some toadally sweet Yosemite Toad facts:
🔆 Female Yosemite Toads are the bold and colorful ones of the species, whereas males typically are more pale and consistent in color.
🏠The Yosemite Toad is both native and endemic to the Sierra Nevada, meaning they won’t be found naturally anywhere else.
🚶Like most toads, Yosemite Toads prefer to walk then hop to get around.
Learn more about how Yosemite Conservancy donors support Yosemite Toads at the link in our bio to yosemite.org/projects/amphibi...
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