Spring is SPRUNG... and so are the frogs! #animalfacts #frog

Added: 2026-05-20

[00:00:00]On today's episode of spring is coming, these frogs are coming. These are two Asian common toads mating. And when they mate, the smaller male latches onto the back of the female. She then proceeds to walk around and lay eggs, which he immediately fertilizes. And they'll do this for 1 to 2 days straight. And over the course of these 2 days, the female can lay up to 40,000 eggs. Sometimes two males will try to mate with the same female at the same time, which creates a little ball of frogs called a mating ball. Now, if you're like me, you might be wondering where the eggs are. You might be used to seeing a big clump of eggs floating in the water. Well, actually, if you look closely, that long string of black dots all around the screen, that is their eggs. This species of toad actually lay their eggs in a long chain. They do this so that they can wrap the eggs around vegetation, holding the eggs in place, hiding them from predators, and increasing their exposure to the water, allowing them to absorb more oxygen.

[00:00:53]That means that rather than staying in one place, these two frogs have been waddling around stacked on top of each other, leaving a chain of fertilized eggs behind them as they wrap it around vegetation and create a big mess. I'd love to see them actually walking around the vegetation sometime. And since spring is coming for all of us in the northern hemisphere, maybe you guys can see it, too. Let me know what you see, and thanks for watching.