Thousands of small toads brought traffic to a standstill in Stockton, Utah, last week.
The toads were crossing a country road, and the sheer volume of them left witnesses and biologists speechless.On the way home, drivers suddenly came to a stop in the middle of unusual traffic.The two-lane road had turned into an intersection.
“As I looked and I kind of focused on it, I realized that these were frogs or toads that were crossing the road,” Hulet said.“We aren’t talking like 10 toads. We’re talking like thousands of toads crossing the road,” Hulet said. “I’m like, ‘Is this like toad-mageddon? What in the world is going on here?’”
“The word Biblical came to mind,” said Chris Crockett, the aquatics manager at the Utah Division of Wildlife Resources.“It’s completely natural, but I would definitely say that was a pretty spectacular event,” Crockett said. “We’re probably talking hundreds of thousands of toads.”“These juvenile toads decided it was a good time to leave their area and out-migrate into some of these surrounding hills,” Crockett said.“There had been quite a few that had been hit by cars or what not.
“There was a lot of dragon flies there. So I thought those were dragon fly guts that we were driving on,” Jackson Mather said.“That was a really hard thing to see,” Hulet said.“I have never seen anything that looked like tens of thousands of frogs,” Hulet said.Copyright 2023 KSL via CNN Newsource. All rights reserved.
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