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Originally Posted by Kayleigh  How do you sex a frog  |
The males have a pad on their thumbs that they use to grab the females with and if you look at the hands it is easy to see and also they are more likely to croak if you pick them up. Females won't croak. The males tend to have more black blotches on their backs but not always. The males usually have a bluish-grey colouring under their mouths on their chins and females are usually a paler mixture of reddish and yellowish colours in the same part. In breeding season before spawning the females are much fatter due to the spawn. After they have laid it they look very different and emaciated until they have had time to feed up again. The same goes for toads - the females are very thin looking after spawning. With toads the males are much smaller and less covered in warts. They also croak if handled but it sounds more like a squeak than a croak.
The males of frogs and toads both croak if handled to tell another male get off me. Frog and toad males are apt to grab on to anything that moves if they have not found a partner. Toad males will also pile on a single female and form a ball of toads and sometimes females drown under the weight of the males.
Males need to croak more because they do this to call others of their species to water.
I can't be sure without examining the creature by picking it up but the one in the picture I think looks like a female.