European toad whose male carries the fertilized eggs wrapped around its hind legs until they hatch.
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He used the midwife toad, Alytes obstetricians, as experimental animal in his most conclusive experiments.
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The results of the midwife toad experiments were subsequently shown to have been faked and Paul Kammerer took his own life in 1926.
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He has been reading about the ' Midwife Toad' and is astounded to think that the male carries the eggs on his legs until they hatch!