Salamander pics

Amazing pictures, thanks for sharing!

I love fieldwork. Alas, as a criminologist, I rarely get to take pictures that would be appropriate for the W&SS forum. :D - Have to live vicariously through our resident biologists.

I came across what appeared to be a spotted salamander this summer, near a stream in northern Ontario. Does their range usually extend that far north?

All the best,

- Mike
 
Those Jeffies were really cool. Most newly hatched larvae eat brine shrimp. We tried to feed them brine shrimp and they started eating each other. Thats when we switched them to blackworms. These are the most agressive salamander larvae I've ever seen.
 
wow man, thats really neat. I dont know anything about sally's, but we did have some really neat looking red ones back east in Nova Scotia, they obviously hung around the lake alot, but we would often see them in the back yard.
 
Now I like these a lot better than the snakes...those little buggers are pretty cool!
 
Don't got any of those. I've got newts.

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Cool pix. The mall here was selling "dinosaurs" at Christmas time. Mud puppies and salamanders. Wanted one BAD...but...i don't think Bruce ( my Austrailian bearded dragon) would have approved. Thanks for sharing...I loved catching those and horny toads when i was a child
 
One of my biology professors studied red-backed salamanders and would have his students dig up cubic yards of land in the woods around Albany NY to do counts of those critters and see how environmental changes would affect them.

He also had every student memorize this:

"Plethodon cinereus, the most abundant terrestrial land vertebrate in the northeast United States."

I remember it almost two decades later and I never took another science course after his. I'm sure he'd be proud.
 
Also, anyone ever run across a hellbender?

I'd flip out if I was ever wading in a stream and had one of those monsters come out of hiding!
 
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