Inheritance
Radiolab
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The Midwife Toad - What You Need to Know
The midwife toad has a strange habit for toads. Most toads, he says, love to stay in the water. But with the midwi toad, the female lays her eggs on land and then the male midwives them onto his back legs until they hatch. He's got to live his life as a toad with all this baggage on him, just until they hatch, and ten til they go off.
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