Frog or Toad - What’s the Difference?

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1. What Do their Bodies, Legs and Toes Look Like?

Frogs are mostly pretty slim, have long and thin legs and webbed toes. Toads are much bigger, and have thick and round bodies and short legs. Toads’ tongues aren’t as long or sticky as frogs’ tongues. Toads move their mouths close to their food.

Frog

Tree Frogs - Photo: Eduard Kyslynskyy/Shutterstock

Toad

Asiatic toad Bufo gargarizans - Photo: Kirsanov Valeriy Vladimirovich/Shutterstock