Frog of the Week

This season, the Houston Zoo released more than one million Houston Toad eggs into protected habitat in Bastrop County—one of the program’s most productive seasons yet.

Working with Texas Parks and Wildlife, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, and our colleagues at Dallas Zoo and Fort Worth Zoo we are helping this endangered species recover in its remaining east-central Texas range. This year, we also introduced a major innovation to our Houston Toad Recovery Program: custom egg-counting software, developed in collaboration with Houston medical physicist Dr. Moiz Ahmad. By using photos to quickly and accurately count thousands of eggs, this new tool helps us scale our impact and move our mission to inspire action to save wildlife forward.

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A Lake with Frogs

Mewar, North India, c.1720

Gouache heightened with gold on paper

Painting 7½ x 7 in. (19 x 17.6 cm); folio 10¼ x 8½ in. (26 x 21.6 cm)

Spring Peepers

It is still winter where I live but we've had some sunny days and I'm thinking about spring. I miss hearing frogs at night like I could from my childhood bedroom, so I had to draw some little guys whose voices you just know are ringing through the misty forest!