We haven't got them here. We do have newts but they don't do fun things like migration - they don't even come out of the water very often. Still fun things to watch though.
Cute! Also, Just to continue to weigh in on the greatness that is NC - I have to say something after the comment made about my area being brown with "long leaf pines" (Long leaf pine forests are a good thing! they give homes to Red-Cockaded Woodpeckers!) - we actually have more salamanders then you can find most anywhere else.
And thus I can't help sharing one of my own pictures taken last year of an Ambystoma opacum that I found while looking for beetle grubs under logs:
THose ones happen to be Ambystoma maculatum (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spotted_Salamander), which is an endangered species here in Illinois, but less rare on the eastern seaboard, I understand.
My stepfather spent most of my childhood conducting longitudinal population studies on Ambystoma laterale in a local natural area, with up to 200 of them in our basement at once. :->
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We haven't got them here. We do have newts but they don't do fun things like migration - they don't even come out of the water very often. Still fun things to watch though.
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And thus I can't help sharing one of my own pictures taken last year of an Ambystoma opacum that I found while looking for beetle grubs under logs:
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(now that's one thing i've never seen here in urbania!)
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My stepfather spent most of my childhood conducting longitudinal population studies on Ambystoma laterale in a local natural area, with up to 200 of them in our basement at once. :->