Salamanders are cool

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[adamhovey1988]

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[AL_1323]

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[Beryllos]

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[Beryllos]

Outlook good but I prefer Thunderbird.

 

[dochawk]

Outlook good but I prefer Thunderbird.

What, Mogan David too fancy for you?

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[AL_1323]

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[adamhovey1988]

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[adamhovey1988]

Any of y’all know about the southern red backed salamander?

 

[adamhovey1988]

Ain’t no one but me like salamanders?

 

[Beryllos]

We don’t have a lot of salamanders around here (Massachusetts), but I did once see a Spotted Salamander in New Hampshire. It was the biggest salamander I’ve ever seen, maybe 7 or 8 inches long from nose to tail. (The others were at most a few inches long.)

(picture from wikipedia)
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[adamhovey1988]

I rarely see them, but that is South Carolina’s state amphibian (okay, I’ve probably never seen them in the wild)

 

[adamhovey1988]

Y’all should read about Tremblay’s Salamanders, nature’s weirdos.

 

[adamhovey1988]

Anyone from California seen slender salamanders?

 

[Beryllos]

I believe I saw one on the UC Berkeley campus when I was studying there in the 1980s. That’s the only one I’ve ever seen.

 

[Beryllos]

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At first I thought it was a skink (a reptile), but skinks move pretty fast and this salamander was really slow. Looking more closely, I recognized it as a salamander.