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1.	fishing for fowl // foul people // falling birds 04:06	info	buy track
2.	Faceless Toad #1 (Muse Food) 03:25		buy track
3.	a Fit in a File Cabinet 03:34		buy track
4.	Faceless Toad #2 (Scoots up in Line) 03:21		buy track
5.	the Earth Birth's Wants//Needs 03:29		buy track
6.	Faceless Toad #3 (Baseless Toad) 03:13		buy track
7.	Wrappers & Nurses 04:51		buy track
8.	Draft Letter Shuteye 03:21		buy track
9.	in Green (No More) 04:18		buy track
10.	No Fan (Of His) 07:44		buy track
11.	Arkansas 02:33		buy track

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" In April 2016, herpetologist Jill Fleming and her colleagues were collecting data on Eastern red-spotted newts in a Connecticut state forest when they stumbled across a truly bizarre find: a toad without a face.

The researchers were seated on a log processing the day’s samples when a seemingly disoriented toad repeatedly crashed into their feet. Puzzled by the amphibian’s unusual behaviour, the team took a closer look and was surprised to discover that the animal was entirely lacking a nose, eyes, jaws and a tongue. In place of a face, the fully grown American toad (Anaxyrus americanus) had only a smooth stump and a small mouth opening. The rest of its body, however, appeared perfectly healthy.

“My initial thought, which I still believe is a likely explanation, was that the extensive injury was inflicted by one of the toad’s many natural predators during hibernation (for example, garter snakes or American mink),” Fleming explained to National Geographic. “For whatever reason, the predator did not finish the job and the toad was able to become active again on that early spring day – amphibians are incredibly resilient.”

Fleming recently shared photos and a video of the toad on Twitter hoping the online science community could shed some light on what may have caused the unusual condition. Some herpetologists pointed to the flesh-eating larvae of a parasitic toad fly called Lucilia bufonivora. The flies have a nasty habit of eating the soft tissues of toads – a grisly process that begins when an adult fly lays its larvae in an amphibian’s eyes or nostrils. Once the eggs have hatched, it takes just two or three days for the larvae to cause extensive damage to the toad’s face, wildlife veterinarian Lydia Franklinos explained to Live Science. Facial tissue is gobbled up so rapidly that the rest of the toad’s body appears relatively healthy as the animal would not have yet begun to exhibit signs of malnutrition.

This toad, however, had no visible wounds suggesting – as Fleming suspects – that an opportunistic predator may have gnawed at the animal’s face while it was in brumation – a hibernation-like state that cold-blooded animals enter into to survive icy weather. In very cold conditions, American toads will burrow underground below the frost line, slow their heart rate, stop breathing and wait until temperatures climb above freezing again. It’s possible that the toad left its face more exposed than the rest of its body and suffered the grim consequences.

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