Fowler's Toad, tadpole

Description:

My little tadpoles are growing up fast! This is the biggest of them, and it now has all four legs. The tail has not shrunk yet, but it looks like a toadlet. Starting to use its legs as well as tail to swim and move around. Also experimenting with poking its head out of the water. I photographed it in a milk cap, then returned it to the terrarium.

Habitat:

From a river at Ben Burton Park, where I found it in the shallows, on a silty riverbed, with hundreds or thousands of other tadpoles. Currently housed in a terrarium on my kitchen counter :). I will return them all to the wild once they've finished metamorphosis.