Amphibian icons of prodigious procreation

Buxton, Derbyshire What compels our imagination is the sheer drive of frogs and toads to get to the spawning pondsWhat is it about frogs and toads that has made them such classic icons of sexual reproduction? It cannot be timing, because their breeding is often over before the other elements of high spring – flowers, bees, birdsong, sunshine – are in full flood. Frogs will gather at the spawning pond when the starlit nights are frosted and the vegetation rimed in white.Nor can it be