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Discovery and Care of the Common Surinam Toad | Pipa pipa

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Authored by John F. Taylor of Reptile Apartment The Discovery and Care of the Common Surinam Toad In 1699, 52-year-old Maria Sibylla Merian (1647-1717) travelled from her home in Amsterdam to the distant Dutch colony of Suriname. For much of her adult life the German-born entomologist and illustrator had been quietly pursuing scientific research, including […]

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Tales and folklore abound throughout the world of amphibians and the evils they are capable of, but is within the history of Toads and Frogs that we will journey upon a long and convoluted trail of misconceptions, myths, and misnomers in which the Toad has seemingly come away with the most notorious reputation.