Pap--

Your info refreshes my memory about them.

The secretions from the glands are what is toxic or poisonous.

The closest thing we have seen in our yard was one of the gopher tortoises that was passing through the neighborhood.

It was on a bee line southbound, and I aided it to get under a nearby wire mesh fence, then across two very busy roads, and finally around a canal that it would have drowned in.

It continued on its straight-line course toward distant woods, that in the years since have all been cleared to bare ground awaiting houses to be built.

If that tortoise or others were there, they got bulldozed and buried as the land was cleared.

Larry