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Giant Toad


Giant Toad
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Copyright: Ralf Lukovic (ralfsworld) Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Star Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 482 W: 90 N: 1822] (6264)
Genre: Animals
Medium: Color
Date Taken: 2006-07-14
Categories: Amphibians
Camera: Canon 20D, Canon 100-400L 4.5-5.6 IS USM
Photo Version: Original Version
Date Submitted: 2007-10-10 1:31
Viewed: 1424
Points: 34
[Note Guidelines] Photographer's Note
Giant Toad captured in Mexico last summer with 20D @ 400mm. It was in forest, flash used and ISO-400, handhold.

This guy looks really cool, big and with funny expression :) He was resting here probably after his breakfast.

The Cane Toad (Bufo marinus), also known as the Giant Neotropical Toad or Marine Toad, is a large, terrestrial true toad native to Central and South America. It is a member of the genus Bufo, which includes hundreds of different true toad species in different habitats throughout the world. The Cane Toad is a prolific breeder; females lay single-clump spawns with large numbers of eggs. Its reproductive success is partly because of opportunistic feeding: it has a diet, unusual among Anurans, of both dead and living matter. Adults average 10 to 15 centimetres (4–6 in) in length; the largest recorded specimen weighed 8.60 kg (18.9 lb) with a length of 20 cm (7.9 in), and a previously recorded specimen weighed 2.65 kg (5.8 lb) with a length of 38 cm (15 in) from snout to vent.

The Cane Toad has poison glands, and the tadpoles are highly toxic to most animals if ingested. Because of its voracious appetite, the Cane Toad has been introduced to many regions of the Pacific and the Caribbean islands as a method of agricultural pest control, notably in the case of Australia in 1935, and derives its common name from its use against sugar cane pests. The Cane Toad is now considered a pest in many of its introduced regions, because its toxic skin kills many native predators when ingested. It has many negative effects on farmers because of pets and animals eating the creatures...

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  • pvs Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Star Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 1168 W: 261 N: 3035] (13835)
  • [2007-10-10 1:35]

Hi Ralf,

A nice capture of this toad,the POV is great as well the use of fill flash which improve to give the colors and details in this capture of the normally dark forest,

Paul

Hi Ralf
Great shot of this toad
Looks so fat and ugly
Good details tfs jon

Hi Ralf,
I love the pose of the toad and the POV is great good DOF also,
TFS,
Nick :-)

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  • uleko Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Star Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 2961 W: 162 N: 826] (2453)
  • [2007-10-10 4:14]

Hello Ralf,
This looks like a really cool guy with his hand resting on the leaf. Excellent focus on the eyes and I like his eye brows! Lovely colours too. Nice shot!
TFS and best wishes, Ulla

hej ralf!
inte visste jag att du va så fin:)
alltid trevligt med självporträtt:)
sharp and good shot on this cool
animal,nice colours and fine pov!
well done!

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  • MMM Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Note Writer [C: 927 W: 0 N: 1965] (8837)
  • [2007-10-10 5:17]

Hi Ralf
Nice image of that toad.Excellent POV .The details and colors are excelent.I also like that eye contact.
TFS Michel

Hi Ralf
very nice creature, really well presented. although dof is not extrem sharpness is spot on the face, lovely colours too
tfs
tom

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  • Argus Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Star Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 3750 W: 187 N: 11171] (34499)
  • [2007-10-10 7:30]

Hej Ralf,
Great shot of a Cane Toad with skillful use of flash. Nice sharpness, pose and good low POV.
These guys were released in Queensland to help get rid of sugar cane pests, but they started to eat everything else instead. As you say they breed rapidly and they have become a real pest in Australia: they are poisonous too.
TFS/ Hälsningar,
Ivan

Du kan väl ta lite ledigt föt att ta fågelbilder när vädret är lämpligt?

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  • Silke Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Star Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 727 W: 98 N: 1694] (5406)
  • [2007-10-10 7:34]

Simply stunning colours and details -- perfect composition and framing
TFS
silke

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  • PeterZ Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Star Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 2348 W: 92 N: 5361] (17140)
  • [2007-10-10 8:28]

Hello Ralf,
Beautiful atmosphere in this photo. Fantastic dark natural colours. Wonderful details and a good composition.
Regards,
Peter

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  • kjpweb Gold Star Critiquer [C: 332 W: 86 N: 1084] (4788)
  • [2007-10-10 10:11]

Great! Well captured, Ralf! It has depth and is quite impressive! Great detail and composition! Like it a lot. Cheers, Klaus

Hello Ralf, splendid and very sharp shot, fantastic natural colors very well satured, very good focus and deeph of field, all is perfect on this great composition,
cheer and thanks for sharing,
friendly,
Pat

Hi Ralf,
very beautiful shot with nicely composed and framed. focus, colors, BG, POV very nice. Lovely toad with angry looking. Good notes also.
TFS, well done
Ahmet

Hello Ralf!
Very nice composed phoo with very good details and sharpness. By my favourite element of this picture is... pose of the toad. Very natural and typical, but for me also a funny pose :) Especially the left leg (here under thebackground) looks funny.
My best regards,
Radomir

Hej Ralf,
en fin bild med mustiga färger och mycket snygg bildvinkel.
Bra skärpa speciellt runt ögonen.
Well done.

Hi Ralph
good photo
Continue
Mike

Nice shot with good pov and colours. I specially like the way it is looking and the rich colours of the grass.

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