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Cover image'Female Yosemite toad (Anaxyrus canorus) in the icy subalpine wilderness of Kings Canyon National Park, at 11,200 feet above sea level', copyright [Paul Maier, Gene by Gene], used with kind permission [Paul Maier, Gene by Gene]