Salamanders are cool

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Just so everyone knows, The Appalachians have more salamanders than anywhere else on earth
 
I will see mudpuppies in the little creek that runs under a main road in our city. It also has a walking path next to it. When walking my dog, it’s fun when they suddenly dash into the creek and makes my dog jump!

In Wyoming, we have a unique toad called a Horned toad. Everyone just calls them Horney toads…which of course, gets every teenager giggling. The kids were always catching them and wanting to keep them. No! They die in captivity so they could keep them for a couple of hours, make them hiss all they wanted then return them to the prairie.
 
I’ve seen only one salamander and that was in the Blue Mountains of North Chackalacky sometime in the early 80’s.
 
Salamanders in Pokémon are the best:

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In spite of trying to find some salamanders, at night, when we have had high humidity, I have not seen another one since. That’s okay, I still like them.
 
Sarcelle said:
Talking about hot, do you know salamanders are the symbol of the element of fire?
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Because of this:
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I live in the woods, so paradoxically, I have to burn wood to prevent fires, and I was going around getting dead wood to throw on the fire, and I found a salamander staring at me.
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Throw a log on the fire that has a salamander in it and it will run as fast as it can to get out. people thought they came from the fire because they did not see it in the log they just tossed on.
 
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Throw a log on the fire that has a salamander in it and it will run as fast as it can to get out. people thought they came from the fire because they did not see it in the log they just tossed on.
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True, but I have yet to see a salamander do that.
 
I have a small pond in front of my house, which is probably why I found the salamander to begin with. It was from a group called “lungless salamanders”. Many of them don’t have a larval stage in water, but a few of them do. I see anurans (frogs and toads) very often. The Eastern narrowmouth toad, Eastern Narrowmouth Toad (Gastrophryne carolinensis) I don’t see often, but I hear a lot. Mostly, I see oak toads, squirrel tree frogs, and southern toads.
 
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I mentioned an Eastern Narrowmouth Toad. I was actually able to record its call earlier.
 
Australia doesn’t have salamanders. That makes me sad. But apparently it did. Did the kangaroos and platypus fight the salamanders to the death?
 
They’re so secretive, that it is entirely possible. The US has more species than anywhere on earth, and scientists are STILL discovering more species.
 
Not many salamanders in my neck of the woods, but I’m absolutely overrun with skinks.
 
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