[Originally the coconut toad, but I figure they can crawl along temperate coastlines too. I grew up around the cold, rocky beaches of Northern California, and can easily imagine a giant toad foraging in the tidepools around, say, Bodega Bay.]
Beach
Toad This
creature resembles a man-sized toad with pebbly skin and wide webbed digits.
Its hide is splotched in browns and whites.
Beach toads are strange
amphibians with a modicum of intelligence and a fierce territorial instinct.
Unlike most amphibians, they can survive in saltwater, and they comb beaches looking
for food. They are specialists in cracking open tough materials with their
strong, blunt teeth, and feed on driftwood, shellfish and coconuts. The remains
of their feasts they store in a throat pouch and use as a defensive weapon,
spraying shards of debris on their enemies.
Beach toads are typically
solitary beachcombers, but gather in large numbers if resources are common and
in order to mate. Although they are peevish creatures at the best of times, it
is in these mating clusters that they are especially violent and aggressive
towards other creatures. They lay their eggs in saltwater, and the tadpoles
frequently drift from island to island clinging to a coconut, flotsam or jetsam.
Beach toads are found across Gladia. Talassa’s faithful keep a watch for them and try to steer them away from populated areas if possible. They are better tolerated in Munab because they feed on heikagani.
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