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I havent seen any of these creatures since I was still wearing a buckskin jacket--in other words,since i was about six years old.
Where have all the hornytoads gone???
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finesse_r
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Most of us have grown to old or died off.
DoubleAdobe
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I still run in to a few around but not many. I think it is ant poison's secondary effects. Red ants are their primary food I believe.
Hey Ringo, yer TEXAS is showing....
It is HORNED toads not horny toads. I was nearly 40 years old before I found that out. 
One reason there may not be so many is because during my summer time visits to my Uncles dairy farm my cousin and I dispatched a goodly number of them with our B.B. guns. There were squillions of 'em in the '50s.
It is HORNED toads not horny toads. I was nearly 40 years old before I found that out. One reason there may not be so many is because during my summer time visits to my Uncles dairy farm my cousin and I dispatched a goodly number of them with our B.B. guns. There were squillions of 'em in the '50s.
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It's the decline in ants==mostly black ants. Many of our ants are dying off because of competition from Argentine ants (non-natives), as well as widespread pesticide use, including over spraying techniques. Several are on the endangered list.
I think you may have fired that over the tops of a few heads around here but I got it.
I'd a give ya double likes for that'n. 
coltle6920
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You telling me that horned toads don't get horny ?
You telling me that horned toads don't get horny ?
I'm sure that there's a government study somewhere but the NAME was always horned toad. some good ol' boy somewhere back in time-out-0f-mind made up his own name for 'em.
venomballistics
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You telling me that horned toads don't get horny ?
in this politically correct mad house we live in today, they prefer to be addressed as reproductively motivated toads.
Back in my younger days I'd hear the distinctive "need-it, need-it" call of a horny toad, but I haven't heard it in a while though.
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Hey Ringo, yer TEXAS is showing....
One reason there may not be so many is because during my summer time visits to my Uncles dairy farm my cousin and I dispatched a goodly number of them with our B.B. guns. There were squillions of 'em in the '50s.
Heh heh, I was afriad id get dinged for creative spelling if I separated the two words though.Thanks for the corretion.See-its been so long that I aint seen them--I forgot how to really call them?
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Heh heh,tell that to all the ants hanging around my area. We have so many mounds around that I get tired of kicking them just to agitate them.
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Is there a difference between state and federal endangered species? Yes. Some species may be listed as state threatened or endangered and not federally listed (ex. Texas horned lizard). The state list deals only with the status of the species within the borders of Texas. A federal listing means that an animal is in trouble throughout its entire range which may cover several different states (ex. bald eagle).
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I'm sure that there's a government study somewhere but the NAME was always horned toad. some good ol' boy somewhere back in time-out-0f-mind made up his own name for 'em.
Speaking of govt studies, the one that chafed me so much--was when they paid two professors seven million dollars-to study the speed-flow of Ketchup.I could have done it for much cheaper.
Anyways,I havent seen one of those critters for ages.What gotme thinking about them was I saw them pictured and mentioned in an episode of: Have Gun Will Travel.
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bshepherd
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The last one I saw was in a field in the Hamilton/Gatesville area of Central Texas in around 1990 plus or minus a couple of years. Cute little boogers
BearBio
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Federal lists may also include species NOT found in the U.S., such as spotted cats, so as to allow protections to be placed. Also, there is CITES (French but translates as "The Congress on the International Trade in Endangered Species"==Pronounced as "Si-tees").
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Somehow the title of this thread reminded me of an old Pete Seger song.
finesse_r
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While your term is more politically correct than horny toad, we horny old toads now like to be referred to as “Reproductively Motivated & Length Challenged Spiked Reptiles” The word Toad is considered to be speciest in nature, discriminatory, and derogatory.
Heh heh, I was afriad id get dinged for creative spelling if I separated the two words though.Thanks for the corretion.See-its been so long that I aint seen them--I forgot how to really call them?
No, you're right. Here in Texas they're horny toads! At least it has been all my life. I know that horned toad is correct but I also eat crawdaddys. I haven't seen a horny toad since I was a kid hanging out in Lubbock with my cousins.
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