Wild Conservation – A Houston Zoo Blog

Houston Toad

The nonprofit Center for Biological Diversity offers free ringtones of rare and endangered animals. Download their haunting hoots, sensational songs and crazy croaks to your cell phone. Available are calls of the blue-throated Macaw, Beluga Whale, Boreal Owl, Mountain Yellow-legged Frog, Houston Toad, or any one of over forty other endangered critters. 

Rareearthtones.org was designed by the Center for Biological Diversity, a non-profit group with over 30,000 members that has been working to protect endangered species and wild places since 1989.

“The goal is to get people talking about and learning more about endangered species. Some of the sounds are so unusual that when people hear the phones ring, they’re bound to ask, ‘What is that?’ That’s what we want.” says Peter Gavin, conservation director for the center.

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