This picture was taken by our old friend Gerald Smith, once the Vicar of the South Pole (Chaplain to the British Antarctic Territories). He wanted an identification (it is Bufo bufo the common European toad)
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In November Sahar Dimus, our guide on four CFZ Sumatra expeditions, died of liver failure leaving a widow Lucy and four Children. On the 2nd November, Dezyama D. Sangma, wife of our friend and colleague Dipu Marak, our collaborator on the 2010 Indian expedition died, leaving her grieving husband and two small children.
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Really difficult to be certain from a single dorsal photo...most likely culprit is a minor bacterial infection from an injury.
A fly infection - there is a species of fly, whose larvae actually attacks the eyes of toads - and in the end east them away.
Lars Thomas
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