Rarest Weirdest Toad Last Stand the Kihansi Spray Toad

Video shows one of earth’s rarest and most unusual species. About half of all of the Kihansi spray toads that exist are shown. It is an almost transparent toad that gives birth to live young. It is thought to now be extinct in the wild. The Toledo and Bronx Zoo is the only place in the world where the Kihansi spray toad is on display. It is amazing because it is an amphibian that gives birth to fully-formed offspring, instead of laying eggs. About half of all the Kihansi toads in the world are in the Toledo Zoo and pictured here. It is an interesting toad to look at because its skin is somewhat transparent. It is like looking inside a vertebrate. *** The Kihansi spray toad, Nectophrynoides asperginis, is a small toad, with adults reaching no more than three quarters of an inch long. It was discovered in 1996 and found only in spray zone around the Kihansi and Mhalala waterfalls in the southern Udzungwa Mountains in Tanzania. It is a critical endangered species because of a restricted range, habit