Herping on a College Campus! 

So I am pretty sure that the first toad that you found is a hybrid of a Southern toad and a Fowler's toad. We have a lot of cross breeding between the two species in the Carolinas.

I love how there’s a bunch of crazy high school/college kids running around and then just two random reptile nerds filming frogs. 😂

Those high school calls are mainly from the “senioridae schoollairus” they are native throughout North America and parts of Europe most of them are mating yells of them trying to get in a relation ship that will most likely fail in a couple months

I absolutely love the green tree frog noises in the background,,, they sound like a bunch of tiny little clown cars,,,,, adorable 😭💞

This herping video goes to show that wildlife is everywhere right under our noses, we just need to know where to look and you're bound to find something interesting if you look in the right places. Life always finds a way to survive.

Most people: aww baby frogs how cute! Emily: Hi! only 5 percent of you will make it to adulthood! There are a lot of things that can eat you right now!

emily: today we’re in south carolina me: ooh that’s where i live emily: here at a college in charleston me: OOH THATS WHERE I LIVE

Gotta appreciate the fact they have the best interest out for the animals they catch. Putting the frogs and toads back in safe locations, then the turtle further out so kids wont grab it.

I 100% understand why y'all were excited but I still find it adorable how excited y'all were about species that I see outside my house everyday and one of the restaurants I used to work at green tree frog central they were just absolutely everywhere

This is a shockingly good idea but try for a slow night if you can. I work night shift on a college campus and to count the things I've seen since April (things liven up for spring) between midnight and sunrise we have Armadillos, cats, raccoons, foxes, GIANT owls, rabbits, frogs, toads, turtles, geckos, anoles, ring neck snakes, black racers, rat snakes, giant wolf spiders, cicadas, more snails than sand on a beach, giant water bugs, opossums, bats and about 67,000 mosquitos. The combination of large grassy fields, easy sources of damp grass and water and relatively light foot travel in my corner of the campus yields some interesting results. Note: I have been jump scared by blind armadillos spooking themselves soooooooo many times. Please, let the staff know what you are doing ahead of time. You will give us heart attacks.

I love when they go somewhere like you get to learn so much from species that may be native or may not be native to your area.

I love that Emily is having to YELL over the frogs

I was feeling really upset and down and then I started watching this video and it's really brought me back honestly. It sounds stupid but genuinely just watching you guys chase frogs and toads around and get excited about them has made my evening a lot better.

I grew up in SC with a small garden pond outside my window. It took me YEARS to sleep ok without the sound of green tree frogs outside my window. They still make me sleepy.

This makes me so happy, seeing you herp on a college campus! I was that weird kid chasing frogs and toads and snakes on my campus, haha! I totally understand getting all the weird Looks from other people walking around.

Pfff. I only saw the college campus part and had to watch it. I am actually in college at the moment so this is perfect. Called it, I had a feeling that the students were staring at them

Hope you guys had fun visiting! You picked the perfect time to go herping, with all of the rain the Carolinas just got. Much love from SC!

I live in Charleston and I love hearing y’all talking about our local fauna. My back porch is covered in green tree frogs and southern toads at night and they’re so cute! I love them.

yall really love electro swing music.. i respect that

I live a little more towards the middle of SC, and as someone who loves reptiles but likes to keep distance from frogs, (USed to be same for all lizards, but now just the small ones) I can confirm my back yard would be a treasure trove for ya'll. (Also pretty sure I heard a rattle snake in the woods today--)

I love green tree frogs and they’re adorable, but they’re less adorable when one is on the wall outside your bedroom window while you’re trying to sleep. They are surprisingly loud and obnoxious for such little critters.

I’d guess that first toad is a fowlers toad. I have a pet fowlers toad that has more distinct crests and the 3 warts per spot is not 100% a rule, but a ‘most of the time’ type of a rule that they have 3 per on most sections but 1 or 2 per in some places. The crests can be prominent in all species but they are different shapes, they don’t all line up with the paranoid glands in the same way. I had a diagram from college but have lost it sadly! We have all these same species in Alabama where I’m from

Green Tree Frogs make great pets! Super low maintenance for a frog, very pretty, and very personable.

"Emily is in South Carolina, redefining bravery We'll never be free until we go herping" Had to make that Hamilton reference when the word "South Carolina" was said

When I was a senior in HS our senior picnic was at a local park with a road back to picnic areas. It poured rain for a short while and we all hide under the shelters. After the rain stopped when you looked at the road it seemed to be moving. Closer inspection revealed it was covered in tiny little toads, smaller than a dime each but thousands of them. There was a runoff stream parallel to the road and they must have just all come up since everything was wet. Amazing sight I still remember over 40 years later.

I love seeing all the little toadlets! I live in NE Wisconsin and we used to get hundreds of tiny little toad babies hopping around our yard in early summer, but for some reason haven't seen them in years. It does make mowing the lawn a lot easier and...cleaner, shall we say?😅

I was born and raised in South Carolina and haven't been back since I left for the Army in 2017. I LOVED hearing the nighttime sounds I miss so much!

I live in Georgia and when you mentioned the calls in the background I hadn't realized you could still hear them in the video because they were blending in perfectly with the ones outside.

We had a huge toad that lived in the grass at the back entrance of my dorm building in college. I loved him he was all fat and adorable! His name was salvyster .

When you picked up the toads, my heart genuinely skipped a beat! Probably because we've always been warned against touching toads in the UK, but I think ours are toxic 😂 Also, the green tree frogs sound so cool! Like they're singing!

I love seeing how animals in nature look vs them in captivity

I'm so glad you guys enjoyed the SC fauna! I hope you get to see some of our gators, I love watching them bask (from a safe distance of course) 😊

When I was in college I always loved finding reptiles on my campus. One of my best finds was a broadhead skink during mating season. The males have these bright reddish orange heads during the breeding season.

This sounds a lot like Texas at night too. It’s the song of my state. I sure do miss these lovely sounds. I live in a very dry part of California and sometimes I hear toads but nothing like this. So beautiful.

One of my favorite frogs in my area is the pacific wood frog, they like ponds shaded by trees away from fast currents, and when you catch them they "Meep!" to try and scare you. They are so adorable!

So awesome!!!! Tree frogs are so gorgeous. Glad y'all found so many lifers! I love how you guys seize life's moments ...

I used to go herping there back in the 80's when CSU was called Southern Baptists at their summer camp "Minds Alive". Thanks for the memories and sure hope y'all enjoyed your visit to Charleston!

OH MY! I go to school at CSU. So exciting to see you at the beautiful campus!

These are species that love my back deck (aside from the slider), but it’s so cool to see someone so excited about them. We try to provide shelter for any we see! The GTF absolutely love our umbrella on the deck, so we don’t open it often lol.

When Emily said "oh look the green tree frogs are making more green tree frogs!" Made me laugh crazy

I’m so glad you enjoyed my home state!! We have tons of animals we would love you to get to know!!

Those frogs 🐸 are amazing

Love it when you find giant piles of toadlets. Saw that near a waterfall when I was camping, once.

The baby turtle has a smile face on the bottom of its shell

The frogs are so cute!

Grew up in the Upstate of SC. Just about every evening we would go out looking for frogs and toads. In our area we basically only had the Fowler toad or a hybrid of the Fowler and Southern

The toad just looked so helpless when Emily was flipping it around. I couldn’t stop giggling.

12:53 that IS my favorite quote, and the code that I live by everyday lol

this is so interesting to see as someone who doesn't live in the states I love when you do videos like this

This was great! I love these kinds of videos where you go herping. It reminds me of how much fun I had herping and bringing home what I found to show my family… sometimes to their chagrin. Makes me wonder what you guys would do in Louisiana where it’s really quite hard to not see some kind of reptile or amphibian on any given day; even in the cities. As far as urban places to look, the University of Louisiana in Lafayette has a literal swamp in the center. You can’t go in it on account of the alligators, but that place attracts the harder to find reptiles and amphibians. Many of which make their way out or into the swamp at night. Save for the alligators… usually. The alligator snapping turtle never left yet, or was taken out that I know of. The bigger reptiles there would often be part of relocation programs; animals that were rescued from precarious situations and would be checked by the biology department before being released in the wild. It’s a great place for birding too. Not to mention the parks and reserves. No better place to get up close and personal to Rexy’s relatives than canoeing or kayaking in Lake Martin or Palmetto Island.

That's awesome, my hubby and I live just up in Myrtle Beach, we spend alot of time down in Charleston as hevis a cancer patient at MUSC. So cool to see y'all in our area

The green tree frog noises are so goofy and cute, it sort of sounds like they're singing

Hi I've been a fan for years. These are some of my favorite vids. Thank for all you do educating the public!!!

When I lived in Georgia, we had green and grey tree frogs everywhere. There were Fowler's and American toads, but only in the wooded areas. Bull frogs and pig frogs were the ones you heard, but rarely saw.

We live in Charleston! My daughter is a huge fan. Watching Snake Discovery helped her get through the pandemic. We now have a female hognose named Bob. The SCPARC hosts some awesome field trips in South Carolina. We did some terrapin sampling with them on the Kiawah River in May. Saturday evening, 7/16, they are doing a nighttime herping field trip at the Old Santee Canal Park. We are sad to miss it because we are out of town. We would love to find out if y'all are doing any public educational events in SC in the future. We are talking about taking a vacation to Minnesota just to see Snake Discovery! Thanks for all you do to introduce so many people to the wonderful world of Reptiles and Amphibians!

A non-egg video? I heard rumors of these, but I didn't believe it until now.

So my top 2 favorite frogs are Milk Tree Frogs and Green Tree Frogs and one is native to my area and it is the Green Tree Frog's so if I were to have a pet frog it would be 1 of the 2 but most likely Green Tree Frogs since they are kept as pets. I really just want to work with animals in general so yeah- I am autistic and animals are one of my special interests :>

I’m currently caring for a gray tree frog, he’s surprisingly easy to handle. His name is Houdini, and since I’m not tong feeding he can be released back into the wild.

A frog moved into my mini pond, sometime this week. We're not friends yet, but it trusted me more today than it did yesterday.

Thank you for the leaving the reptile phrases up a little bit longer.. It was perfect

In New Orleans, right now it's super rainy season, so there are lots of little frogs/toads hopping around the French Quarter. They look like the toadlets you found. They are tiny: about the size of a quarter, dark, and super cute.

Everything you found was so cute. I learned a lot about the reptiles you found. That turtle was beautiful.

Love all the lil frogs!! Their calls were so loud and so soothing :) Oh, for the question at the end "can blind people see their dreams?" There is a known answer for that - They cannot! If they were born blind. If they went blind later, the visual part of dreams will be present, but decrease with age. Like memories, ya know?

So I watched this on my TV and I swear all the frog noises made my animals start acting funny lol. Fun vid!!

You 2 running around campus at night hunting frogs and toads is so adorable :)

This is the kind of thing I would do at college 😂

When they got comfy on your hand😭that made me wanna cry that was the cutest thing ever

Awe! I'm in south east NC. So about 3 hours from there. I loved watching y'all react to the green tree frogs! That's probably something we take for granted down here sometimes. Even the baby yellow belly! I used to have one as a kid. Much love from the Carolina's!! ♥️♥️♥️

woooooo herping let’s go!!!

After awhile the frog calls started to sound like a rubber chicken 😆

When Emily was talking about the yellow belly slider, the background sounded like in a video game. So cute. 😂

What a beautiful natural chorus in the background due to the green tree frogs. So cool. The yellow bellied slider looked like it had a smiley face on it’s plastrum with the two black dots and the little dark line just below them. All those cute toadlettes! I can’t believe how many there were in that one small area! Nature is so incredible if you just take the time to appreciate it. Thanks for the video Emily and Ed. You two need to get one of those portable emergency power sources as a backup for when you forget to charge your phones lol. You can get some pretty decent ones for pretty cheap and that way you’ll not miss out on a great filming opportunity because of a dead battery. ☺️💕

Only thing I found in college was debt 😬😂

I love turtles… so much that i got a hermanns tortoise. Would love to see more of the turtles and tortoises of your channel. Me and Noki (my tortoise) say hello from Florida.

Those two spots on the turtle make a smiley face! 😀

There are a lot of frogs~ awesome~ Thank you for sharing this video~👍

I love all the frogs!!!!! They are so cute I love them! Also when is the next snake discovery shenanigans coming?

I had the same frogs (green tree frogs) in my last apartment complex. They were so loud 😂😂 I never really saw them out and about and didn’t try catching any. We also had koi and a ton of turtles in the ponds in front of my building. Very few predators except random birds that would swallow the koi whole 😬😬😬😬

The sound the green frogs make is making me lose it🤣 ‘memeep memeep memeep’

I had a toad corner like that in my neighborhood. It was very cool.

I love these types of videos! You guys are the best RU-vidrs ever! I want to get a reptile but my mom and dad won’t let me

You are awesome 😎

I’m doing my Masters thesis on green tree frogs, southern leopard frogs, and American bullfrogs. So cool to see you catch frogs!!!

Green tree frogs are by far my favorite frogs. They remind me of childhood when I used to go out at my grandparents house and find them on the side of their house. The ones I found at their house had very vibrant yellow stripes and no where else have I found ones with such yellow stripes and where I live right now they have very white stripes. There are soooo many southern toads around my house that I have to very carefully walk in my yard around dusk or I’ll just step on a toad, doesn’t help I have bad eyesight and night vision

Also when is a baby video I can’t wait for baby belelelel's! also that’s the most adorable southern toad!

Hope you guys are enjoying South Carolina! (From a South Carolinian)

During the summer, especially mid to late summer, when it's hot and super humid (with frequent thunderstorms), you can find reptiles and amphibians EVERYWHERE in the Carolinas. I love falling asleep to the sound of the tree frogs during the summer.

Emily and Ed I love your videos so much. You guys are so caring to animals and each other.

The last fee days of school last school year i found a hatchling River Cooter on top of its head, shell vertical, right outside the school door. I’m pretty sure someone put it like that but i took it in and gave it to a person i knew well who had a friend looking for a turtle for their pond. I was shown a video of him settling in :) I didn’t return it to the wild as it may have been on its head for a long time an there was no way to tell if it had sustained any trauma or neurological issues due to it, and I was afraid that it would meet a more unfortunate end if a crueller person found it after :( Just before that a person killed a toad i had found after i released it back. He came up to show us the injured toad and I took it back home but it was too badly injured to save. It held on for a few hours, and I hope it was at peace that it was in a safe and warm home when it passed.

Hi

Those baby toads are the reason I'm not allowed to cut the grass anymore...my husband says I take too long because I constantly stop to save tiny toads and tree frogs on our 5 acres 😆 🤣

I live about an hour an half from Charleston in the country the past couple weeks we have had thousands of frogs in our yard. An I mean that thousands when I walk threw the yard nearly every step you take you see baby frogs hopping away from your feet it is insane. Glad yall found some cool things in Charleston its one of my favorite places to go.

Green tree frogs vibing in the backround. I actually like the calling. sounds so cool! lol

S.C your in my stomping grounds. Charleston is a nice but crowded place. We've had a lot of rain lately sounds like a symphony around my house at night. Love it and I love you guys! As always thanks for taking us along for the ride!

Super awesome 😎

I love you a turtle baby It's so cute When sheds and Emily's hand🐢❤

I have started some compost piles and the garter snakes love it I always find tons under the tarp

Sounds like the green tree frogs in the background are saying: "Meep!" I love it

I went fishing in North Carolina and I saw a western painted turtle they are beautiful

That turtle is REALLy cute. I find the obnoxious calls of the frogs in the background really funny