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    Midwife toads are a genus (Alytes) of frogs in the family Alytidae (formerly Discoglossidae), and are found in most of Continental Europe and Northwestern...
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    The Majorcan midwife toad (Alytes muletensis) (also Mallorcan midwife toad or ferreret in Balearic Catalan and Spanish) is a frog in the family Alytidae...
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    The common midwife toad (Alytes obstetricans) is a species of midwife frog in the family Alytidae (formerly Discoglossidae). It is found in Belgium, France...
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    The Iberian midwife toad or brown midwife toad (Alytes cisternasii), in Portuguese sapo-parteiro-ibérico, is a species of frog in the family Alytidae (formerly...
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    Bombinatoridae (fire-bellied toads and jungle toads) Calyptocephalellidae (helmeted water toad and false toads) Discoglossidae (midwife toads) Myobatrachidae (Australian...
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    making midwife toads breed in the water by increasing the temperature of their tanks, forcing them to retreat to the water to cool off. The male midwife toads...
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    Alytes maurus, commonly known as the Moroccan midwife toad, is a species of frog in the family Alytidae. It is endemic to Morocco. Its natural habitats...
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    The Betic midwife toad or Sapo Partero Bético (Alytes dickhilleni) is a species of frog in the family Alytidae (formerly Discoglossidae). It is endemic...
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    a family of primitive frogs. Their common name is painted frogs or midwife toads. Most are endemic to Europe, but three species occur in northwest Africa...
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  • sardus LC Midwife toad, Alytes obstetricans LC and: Catalonian midwife toad, Alytes (obstetricans) almogavarii (Spain) Iberian midwife toad, Alytes cisternasii...
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    saw the publication of four more books by Koestler: The Case of the Midwife Toad (1971), The Roots of Coincidence and The Call-Girls (both 1972), and...
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    tadpoles drop off. He then moves on to another pool. The male common midwife toad (Alytes obstetricans) carries the eggs around with him attached to his...
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    Italian crested newt (Triturus carnifex) Toads Midwife toad (Alytes obstetricans) (naturalised) Yellow-bellied toad (Bombina variegata) — was naturalised...
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    Picchu in 2009 suggest that C. oblativus is still alive as well. Majorcan midwife toad (Alytes muletensis), in the family Alytidae, described from fossil remains...
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    where he dips himself into the water and the tadpoles drop off. The male midwife toad (Alytes obstetricans) winds egg strings round his thighs and carries...
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    numerous, are represented by such unique species as the Balearic midwife toad and the Ferreret toad. The skies of the Serra de Tramuntana are traversed by a variety...
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    introduced to Britain during historical times. Some species such as the midwife toad (Alytes), rainbow trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss), sweet chestnut (Castanea...
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    Menorca, the Ibiza wall lizard native to the Pityusics, and the Majorcan midwife toad, today only found in the mountains of Mallorca. An extinct dwarf subspecies...
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    invader to exert such high pressure that prey species such as the Majorcan midwife toad (Alytes muletensis) have retreated entirely to habitats too steep for...
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  • the case of some species of frogs, such as the Mallorcan midwife toad and the Kihansi spray toad, it has been possible to repopulate areas where wild populations...
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    alpine newt, the iberian frog, the European tree frog or the common midwife toad. At a middle elevation in the mountain reaches close to water streams...
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  • April 6 and July 2, 1970". In Koestler, Arthur (ed.). The Case of the Midwife Toad. Hutchinson. pp. 24, 51, 82, 121. Authors "Chapter 1: Communication"...
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    Psychological Inquiry. 10 (4).; and Koestler, Arthur (1972). The Case of the Midwife Toad. New York. p. 30. Neo-Darwinism does indeed carry the nineteenth-century...
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    combat in some species. Austrian biologist Paul Kammerer experimented on midwife toads' nuptial pads. He used the offspring's apparent enlargening from...
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    for 8 generations Disputed, results not replicated Paul Kammerer 1920s Midwife toad Black foot-pads inherited Fraud, ink injected; or, results misinterpreted;...
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  • 1971 Brett Tony Powers Episode: "The Hollow Men" 1971 The Case of the Midwife Toad G.K. Noble Television film 1972 The Lotus Eaters Philip Mervish 5 episodes...
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  • best known for playing Nurse Delia Busby in the BBC drama series Call the Midwife from 2015 to 2017. Lamb was born in Cardiff, Wales, United Kingdom Lamb...
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    programmed cell death, while studying the development of the tadpole of the midwife toad (Alytes obstetricans). Charles Darwin mentions Vogt's support for the...
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    of their body mass in the time they spend protecting the nest. Male midwife toads (Alytes) will carry eggs between their legs to protect them from predators...
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    spadefoot), midwife toads and bombinatorids (yellow-bellied toad, European fire-bellied toad) discoglossids (e.g. common midwife toad, 10 Mediterranean...
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