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Garrett Sharpe
Salamanders are an important environmental health indicator because they breathe through their skin, meaning that proper land management and exclusion of pesticides and herbicides are incredibly important for them to continue to use an environment.

This white-spotted slimy salamander was found in one of my neighbor's native garden spaces during a heavy rain. All of the mulch, native plants, and rocks in the drainage ditch give this guy plenty of food and moist places to hide. Across the road is a manicured lawn where all the dead leaves that maintain moist soils are leaf blown away, and poisons and fertilizers are added to a grass lawn whose roots don't penetrate deeply enough into the soil to break it up and provide loose soil for salamanders to burrow into. How we manage spaces for ourselves determines whether animals like this one can remain in our cities or not, so I urge you to make property decisions with them in mind.

#salamander #herpetology #amphibian #wildlife #northcarolina #hiking #hike #nature
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llewelly

newest episode of herphighlights is on "skydiving" salamanders ; Brown et al 2022 tests the ability of 3 tree-dwelling Aneides salamanders to guide their falls in an aerodynamic manner.

herphighlights.podbean.com/e/2

#herps
#salamander
#gliding
#parachuting
#fallingInStyle
#falling
#aboreal
#redwood

herphighlights.podbean.com223 Sky-diving Salamanders | Herpetological HighlightsSome tree-dwelling salamanders have a remarkable ability to ‘sky-dive’, controlling their descent after leaping away from predators. New research tests the gliding ability of a number of different species, and finds that some are more adept than others. We follow up with a brand new frog species described from Kangaroo Island, Australia.  Become a Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/herphighlights Merch: https://www.redbubble.com/people/herphighlights/shop Full reference list available here: http://www.herphighlights.podbean.com Main Paper References: Brown CE, Sathe EA, Dudley R, Deban SM. 2022. Aerial maneuvering by plethodontid salamanders spanning an arboreality gradient. Journal of Experimental Biology 225:jeb244598. DOI: 10.1242/jeb.244598. Species of the Bi-Week: Parkin T, Rowley JJL, Elliott-Tate J, Mahony MJ, Sumner J, Melville J, Donnellan SC. 2024. Systematic assessment of the brown tree frog (Anura: Pelodryadidae: Litoria ewingii) reveals two endemic species in South Australia. Zootaxa 5406:1–36. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5406.1.1. Other Mentioned Papers/Studies: Brown, C. E., Goldenberg, W. P., Hinds, O. M., O'Donnell, M. K., & Staub, N. L. (2025). Vascular and Osteological Morphology of Expanded Digit Tips Suggests Specialization in the Wandering Salamander (Aneides vagrans). Journal of Morphology, 286(1), e70026. Other Links/Mentions: Sounds of Northern Pacific Treefrog - Pseudacris regilla. Available at https://californiaherps.com/frogs/pages/p.regilla.sounds.html (accessed February 18, 2025). Editing and Music: Intro/outro – Treehouse by Ed Nelson Species Bi-week theme – Michael Timothy Other Music – The Passion HiFi, https://www.thepassionhifi.com Intro visuals – Paul Snelling
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GraadYeah

Spent an hour helping salamanders cross the cycle path again :ecoanarchism_heart:
The nights are getting colder so less will come out of their hibernation.
Only salamanders tonight.
Toads often migrate between 500 and 1500 meters, but they can sometimes even migrate as far as 3000 meters.
#paddentrek #salamander

hand holding a salamander on card above grass
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