{"id":811720,"date":"2026-05-21T07:41:11","date_gmt":"2026-05-21T07:41:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/811720\/"},"modified":"2026-05-21T07:41:11","modified_gmt":"2026-05-21T07:41:11","slug":"houston-zoo-releases-1-million-toad-eggs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/811720\/","title":{"rendered":"Houston Zoo Releases 1 Million Toad Eggs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Staff at Houston Zoo released more than one million Houston toad eggs in a protected habit as part of a species recovery program, recent footage shows.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The Houston toad, an <a data-ylk=\"slk:endangered species,;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;link&quot;,&quot;yLinkElementType&quot;:&quot;article_link&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/www.fws.gov\/species\/houston-toad-bufo-houstonensis\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">endangered species,<\/a> is a small, brown amphibian. The toad was typically located in more than a dozen counties but can only be found only in a narrow stretch of east-central Texas, Houston Zoo said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The eggs were released as art of a conservation effort by Houston Zoo, Texas Parks and Wildlife, the US Fish and Wildlife Service, and staff at Dallas Zoo and Fort Worth Zoo.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Staff counted and documented the eggs using a automated software and released them in a protected habitat in Bastrop County, Texas. Credit: Houston Zoo via Storyful<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Staff at Houston Zoo released more than one million Houston toad eggs in a protected habit as part&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":811721,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5130],"tags":[8158,40532,4345,322822,102124,329812,358,3187],"class_list":["post-811720","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-houston","tag-dallas-zoo","tag-fort-worth-zoo","tag-houston","tag-houston-toad","tag-houston-zoo","tag-species-recovery-program","tag-texas","tag-tx"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116611441749518255","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/811720","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=811720"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/811720\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/811721"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=811720"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=811720"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=811720"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}