NEWS… BUT NOT AS YOU KNOW IT
People are apparently licking one of the biggest toads in North America in order to get high – and the US National Park Service is warning against it.
The Sonoran Desert toad, also called the Colorado river toad, measures seven inches and makes a ‘weak, low-pitched toot, lasting less than a second’, the park service wrote on Facebook.
They have prominent parotoid glands that emit a potent toxin. But rather than run from the amphibians, some people have been seeking them out.
‘It can make you sick if you handle the frog or get the poison in your mouth,’ the park service wrote.