Beebee, T.J. Effects of road mortality and mitigation measures on amphibia populations. Conserv. Biol. 27, 657–668 (2013). It's about your rowing, I suppose,' said the Rat, with an innocent air. 'You're getting on fairly well, though you splash a good bit still. With a great deal of patience, and any quantity of coaching, you may——' Because of the objections of my early publishers I was not allowed to use the same personae names in each work. [16] Real-life person

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Supernatural' and 'Timeless' creator Eric Kripke details the real-life inspirations behind his fantasy series". Los Angeles Times. 2018-12-19 . Retrieved 2021-05-10. They had not proceeded very far on their way, however, when there was a pattering of feet behind them, and Toad caught them up and thrust a paw inside the elbow of each of them; still breathing short and staring into vacancy. Bignell, Paul (29 July 2007). " On the Road (uncensored). Discovered: Kerouac "cuts" ". The Independent. London. Archived from the original on September 27, 2007 . Retrieved 2007-08-02. Mild, damp nights are reasonably unusual in February and March, so there are relatively few busy nights each season. On many nights not a single toad is collected, it being just too cold for an ectothermic (cold-blooded) animal to move. Then, on just a few nights each year, huge numbers can be seen (see figure 2 and 3, below). For example, on the busiest night in 2019, 20 volunteers carried 1,754 toads across the road. On two nights in the last 20 years that number has exceeded 2,000. In most years over 50% of all the toads are collected on just four or five evenings. It takes quite a few hours and many volunteers to collect so many toads. Toad on the frog! Ha! Just kidding. There's a bear riding a bike and once everyone freaked out. The bear said, "Skedaddle! Get out of the road before you get run over!" Puff! Scream! "What is your Mom gonna say?" Oh No! There's a Toad on the Road! And then, there is a Vole in a Van!

Ratty,' said the Mole suddenly, one bright summer morning, 'if you please, I want to ask you a favour.' Reading, C. J. & Jofré, G.M. Declining common toad body size correlated with climate warming. Biol. J. Lin. Soc. 134(3), 577–586 (2021). Concern for the toad population at Oaken Grove led to the creation of the first toad tunnels in the UK[3], an idea that had already found use in mainland Europe for over a decade previously. Two tunnels were constructed just below the surface of the road with an extensive fence erected to funnel the toads to the entrances. Although it is stated[ 3] that many toads passed through the tunnels in the year they were created, little subsequent information was gathered on how successful, or not, they were. Come along in, and have some lunch,' he said, diplomatically, 'and we'll talk it over. We needn't decide anything in a hurry. Of course, I don't really care. I only want to give pleasure to you fellows. "Live for others!" That's my motto in life.' Glorious, stirring sight!' murmured Toad, never offering to move. 'The poetry of motion! The REAL way to travel! The ONLY way to travel! Here to-day—in next week to-morrow! Villages skipped, towns and cities jumped—always somebody else's horizon! O bliss! O poop-poop! O my! O my!'

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This collection of children's literature is a part of the Educational Technology Clearinghouse and is funded by various grants. Thomas Pynchon (13 June 2012). Slow Learner. Penguin Publishing Group. p.3. ISBN 978-1-101-59461-2. I beg your pardon,' said the Rat slowly, as he chewed a straw, 'but did I overhear you say something about "WE," and "START," and "THIS AFTERNOON?"' Adults undergo a spawning migration each spring, requiring them to travel from their terrestrial environment – they spend most of each year in woods, meadows and even gardens – to a pond or lake to breed. That return journey often involves crossing a road and therein lies the problem. Amphibians generally move slowly and their road sense is non-existent. The inevitable outcome is that many die on the roads, run over by traffic as they travel to their spawning pond or while returning from it. Between the towns of Henley-on-Thames and Marlow, in southern England, a large common toad population lives in an area known as Oaken Grove.Johnston, Allan (Spring 2005). "Consumption, Addiction, Vision, Energy: Political Economies and Utopian Visions in the Writings of the Beat Generation". College Literature. 32 (2): 103–126. doi: 10.1353/lit.2005.0028. JSTOR 25115269. S2CID 144789716.

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The Rat saw what was passing in his mind, and wavered. He hated disappointing people, and he was fond of the Mole, and would do almost anything to oblige him. Toad was watching both of them closely. The review from Time exhibited a similar sentiment. "The post-World War II generation—beat or beatific—has not found symbolic spokesmen with anywhere near the talents of Fitzgerald, Hemingway, or Nathanael West. In this novel, talented Author Kerouac, 35, does not join that literary league, either, but at least suggests that his generation is not silent. With his barbaric yawp of a book, Kerouac commands attention as a kind of literary James Dean." [21] It considers the book partly a travel book and partly a collection of journal jottings. While Kerouac sees his characters as "mad to live ... desirous of everything at the same time," the reviewer likens them to cases of "psychosis that is a variety of Ganser Syndrome" who "aren't really mad—they only seem to be." [21] Critical study [ edit ] Ottburg, F.G.W.A. & van der Grift, E.A. Effectiveness of road mitigation for common toads ( Bufo bufo) in The Netherlands. Front. Ecol. and Evol. 7, During luncheon—which was excellent, of course, as everything at Toad Hall always was—the Toad simply let himself go. Disregarding the Rat, he proceeded to play upon the inexperienced Mole as on a harp. Naturally a voluble animal, and always mastered by his imagination, he painted the prospects of the trip and the joys of the open life and the roadside in such glowing colours that the Mole could hardly sit in his chair for excitement. Somehow, it soon seemed taken for granted by all three of them that the trip was a settled thing; and the Rat, though still unconvinced in his mind, allowed his good-nature to over-ride his personal objections. He could not bear to disappoint his two friends, who were already deep in schemes and anticipations, planning out each day's separate occupation for several weeks ahead. The male is, of course, trying to optimise his chances of fertilising the eggs released by ‘his’ female, although once in the lake other males will compete aggressively for the females. Single females arrive towards the end of the spawning migration, very plump and ready to spawn.Although toads dominate the spawning migration to this particular lake, good numbers of frogs and smooth (or common) newts are also collected by the volunteers from the barrier. As with the toads, numbers fluctuate considerably from year to year, but in most years around 500 frogs and 300 newts are helped across the road.

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Let's sit quiet a bit, Toady!' said the Rat, throwing himself into an easy chair, while the Mole took another by the side of him and made some civil remark about Toad's 'delightful residence.' Usually, no organised attempt is made to help these tiny toads across the road – catching them is not easy – although in 2020, when there seemed to be an exceptionally high number of toadlets heading for the road, volunteers collected over 12,000 of them and released them into Oaken Grove woods. Fortunately, when toadlets are on the move between dusk and dawn in the spring it is in the middle of the night and traffic is considerably lighter. a b Carden, Mary Pannicia (2009). Hilary Holladay and Robert Holton (ed.). " 'Adventures in Auto-Eroticism': Economies of Traveling Masculinity in On the Road and The First Third". What's Your Road, Man?. Carbondale, IL: Southern Illinois University Press: 169–185. Characters: Thumbelina | Prince Cornelius | Jacquimo | Grundel | Berkeley Beetle | Li'l Bee, Gnatty, & Baby Bug | Ms. Fieldmouse | Mother | Hero | Mrs. Toad | Mr. Mole | King Colbert | Queen Tabitha | Buzzbee | Mozo Toad | Gringo Toad Cowley, Malcolm; Young, Thomas Daniel (1986). Conversations with Malcolm Cowley. University Press of Mississippi. p. 111.