Dr. James Fitzsimmons
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I think they might not be classified as bufo toads anymore, but they're the ones that people think get you high if you lick them.
Yeah, I don't...
First of all, one, who tried that out?
Two, it's actually mostly really poisonous.
I don't know if it would actually, like, don't try this, guys.
I think it's just really poisonous.
Let's put it this way.
You're not going to get me licking a toad.
I'm not going to try that.
So I don't know anybody who has.
But yeah, that's just a weird one.
Anyway, so I'm looking at these things.
And I said, oh, they're toad eggs.
And I started to sort of come around to that possibility.
And what I found was that basically a lot of these toads and frogs and things, they form part of a category of really sort of fertile animals.
Animals that the ancient Maya thought were like produced lots and lots of young and like they're all fertile.