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Zoo released nearly 700,000 eggs, toads and spawn to save them
- On March 27, the Fort Worth Zoo reintroduced nearly 691,000 Houston toads—including eggs, tadpoles, and adult specimens—into a protected habitat in Bastrop County, Texas.
- This effort focused on saving the Houston toad, a species recognized as endangered since 1970, with estimates suggesting fewer than 400 individuals remain in their natural habitat.
- During the six to eight week breeding season, the zoo's team matched adult toads weekly using reproductive physiologist data to produce egg strands of 4,000 to 10,000 eggs each.
- This year, the Fort Worth Zoo’s facility released over 680,000 eggs, nearly 8,700 tadpoles, and 64 adult toads, placing egg strands into protective baskets in a pond at the Bastrop County release site.
- The release supports wild population recovery efforts and reflects ongoing conservation actions to sustain one of the earliest amphibians federally listed as endangered.
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