BROOKFIELD, Ill. - The bunny and the toad may sound like a children’s story. But it’s a real-life tale at the center of an effort at Brookfield Zoo Chicago to save the rare Puerto Rican Crested Toad from extinction.

And now that effort is getting a big boost from Puerto Rican superstar Bad Bunny.

Conservation efforts

Local perspective:

Brookfield Zoo Lead Animal Care Specialist Mike Masellis showed Fox 32 two of the 30 Puerto Rican Crested Toads they keep at the zoo as part of a breeding and conservation program that’s been going on for years.

This year, they mated two pairs of the toads, which produced 1,762 tadpoles that have already been shipped to Puerto Rico and released into the wild.

"We’re well over 25,000 tadpoles released since we’ve been participating in the program," sa

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