{"id":117406,"date":"2025-09-05T23:15:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-05T23:15:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/117406\/"},"modified":"2025-09-05T23:15:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-05T23:15:07","slug":"rare-five-legged-toad-found-in-devon-garden-pond-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/117406\/","title":{"rendered":"Rare five-legged toad found in Devon garden pond"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Mr Gray, an honorary senior lecturer at the University of Manchester, said amphibians, including toads, frogs and newts were &#8220;very susceptible&#8221; to pesticides, which get into their environment and this can cause the deformity.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He added some amphibians could also regenerate limbs if they sustained damage when they were young, or even in the tadpole stage of life.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;The leg bud looks like it has been damaged, so what I think has happened here is its body has thought it&#8217;s lost a leg, so it&#8217;s generated a new one from the actual limb bud,&#8221; Mr Gray said after seeing a photograph of the toad.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Looking at the other leg, it looks like its damaged to a degree and lost a few of its digits.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mr Gray, an honorary senior lecturer at the University of Manchester, said amphibians, including toads, frogs and newts&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":117407,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[90,56,54,55,4407],"class_list":{"0":"post-117406","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wildlife","8":"tag-science","9":"tag-uk","10":"tag-united-kingdom","11":"tag-unitedkingdom","12":"tag-wildlife"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117406","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=117406"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117406\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/117407"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117406"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=117406"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=117406"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}