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A picture made available 05 May 2016 shows a small toad at the Jambatu Center for Research and Conservation of Amphibians in Quito, Ecuador, 15 April 2016. The Jambatu Center, a state and private initiative working for the conservation of amphibians, researches for biomedicine aiming to find future remedies for human diseases. Ecuador counts with a nine percent of the world's amphibian species with over 600 frog families, 546 of them already identified. According to experts, frogs and toads have worthy molecules that can be used to treat diseases such as the Alzheimer's and can be used as an alternative to painkillers, as their secretions the can be a 100 times more powerful than morphine. (Photo by Jose Jacome/EPA)
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