Toad Olympics are over (not postponed), diet data collected and tadpoles have metamorphosed
Max had been hard at work on his experiment and has collected vast amounts of data. It has been a lot of work for Max. Let's remember where he came from, months ago, toads were laying eggs. Guttural toads were caught in their native range, and invasive toads (from Cape Town) were moved back up to their native Durban to breed.
In this common garden experiment, all of the toads were kept and bred in the same conditions. Max's interest was in the tadpoles, their time to development, performance on the way and their change into metamorphs.
So it's been quite a journey.
Meanwhile...
Sam has been flushing guts galore and building lots of traps for catching invertebrates to see what's available for the toads to eat.
Lastly, James has been making those toads run, jump and climb.
Above (right) you can see a toad that has succesfully climbed out of it's confinement. Below, a toad in an experiment to measure exploration behaviour dares to leave its hideout and venture around the arena.
