Smologies #3: TOADS with Priya Nanjappa

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Alie Ward

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🗓️ 5 August 2021

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Ohaaay another edited-down, classroom-friendly Smologies! About... toads! Are they frogs? Do they have arms? What do they eat? How long do they live? What’s with the warts? Amphibian enthusiast Priya Nanjappa joins with a toadally awesome episode that will change the way you crouch down and shake hands with your tiny backyard grumpa.(And for the full version with NSFW stories, the link is below.)

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0:00.0	Oh hey, it's the dog in the backseat of the car next to you.
0:04.0	Alli Ward back with episode three of Smologies,
0:08.0	right-sized classroom-friendly versions of our deep-diveology's classics.
0:13.0	This one makes me so happy because Toads get it happy.
0:37.0	Are Toads the unsung underdogs?
0:39.0	Are they worthy friends yet to be made?
0:42.0	Do they belong in a heap of cancelled beasts who don't deserve our admiration?
0:46.0	You'll find out.
0:47.0	Okay, buphology.
0:48.0	Let's go down a toad hole.
0:50.0	So buphology is a word that I did not make up,
0:53.0	although it's seldom cited to be fair.
0:55.0	A 2011 Reptile magazine article titled,
0:59.0	Oh, to a Toad, uses the term buphology 101,
1:03.0	so I'm going with it.
1:04.0	There's also herpothology, which is reptiles and amphibians.
1:08.0	There's that tract ecology, which is the subfield that is just amphibians,
1:13.0	which I may have pronounced wrong, but what if I want to do a frog episode down the line,
1:18.0	or one on Newt?
1:19.0	So I'm going buphology because it exists.
1:22.0	People use it sometimes.
1:23.0	Also, its root is bufo, and the Latin for Toad,
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