Toads’ burrowing habits are instinctive and occur both in the wild and in captivity. In the wild, toads will seek out soft, loamy, or sandy soils, leaf litter, or even loose mulch to dig into.

When the burrows were excavated for the study, Doody and his colleague were surprised to find many other creatures had moved in. In total they found 750 individual animals of 28 different species ...

David M. Green didn’t intend to spend a quarter of a century studying the hibernation habits of toads. Green, a biology professor and director of the Redpath Museum at McGill University, initially set ...