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Volunteers help frogs cross road in Russia to reach spawning sites

Volunteers in Russia have patrolled a road just outside St. Petersburg looking for frogs and toads heading across the asphalt towards their spawning sites in a nearby body of water, picking them up and carrying them onto the grass, where they wouldn't be hit by cars.

There usually aren't that many on this particular section of the road in the Sestroretsk Bog natural reserve, but the relatively slow traffic still killed up to 1,000 toads, the St. Petersburg Zoological Institute said.

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