Wyoming Toads are a glacial relic. Their ancestors moved south ahead of the advancing ice swaths while a small population hunkered down in the Laramie River basin.
Wyoming toad populations in the wild are very low. They hover around 100 individuals. There is a fairly successful breeding program in captivity which has a population around 500 individuals but either way their numbers are precarious. I spoke with Val Hornyak who is a herpetologist at the Toledo zoo, she mentioned one problem too with studying toads is they are not an enigmatic mammal so finding funding can be difficult. I care about toads and how y'all do too. Please see wyomingtoad.org for more information about this species.

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