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Found under a pile of logs. They seem frozen at first, but as them warm up in the palm, they spring to life
16 responses to “Slitherin’ Salamanders”
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Oh My!
at first I thought they were snakes…LOL
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Gee, look at those little tiny legs. Amazing shot Steve.
Once (a long time ago) my kids found a bunch of these and had them in a paper cup, got into our car….and naturally the cup overturned. Baby Salamanders suddenly disappeared. For a long time I thought about them when I’d get in my car.
Nice catch…..from the thumbnail, I thought they were fishing worms! (Guess I miss going fishing……) LOL
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Hi, I’m an admin for a group called Photography and the New Science of Neuro-Aesthetics, and we’d love to have your photo added to the group.
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Maybe you need a new set of ‘Nice amphibians’! I didn’t realize their legs were so very short.
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They also have a really cool thing called the embryonic development program to build a new limb, if they happen to lose one, I think someone is trying to create it also for people, seems like a smart little cryters.
"to trigger salamanderlike healing could make it possible to regenerate large body parts." http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?id=regrowing-human-limbs
People already know to grow back fingerprints, and this gives hope to get the blastema to also soon know where to grow back a limb, as "fibroblasts, retain a memory of the spatial coordinate system".
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They look like California Slender Salamanders. When my kids were small we found some in our woodpile and tried to turn them into pets (named Sally and Mandy). The problem is, each week you have to go to the pet store to buy crickets that are under one-week old for the salamanders to eat. Then the salamanders burrow into the ground during the day and you hardly ever get to see them. Moral: salamanders make lousy pets . . .
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Now this guy –
was in our new house the day we moved in. It’s a mid-17th century cottage in the Cotswolds, and resident – or at least wannabe-resident – amphibians indicate how very damp it was before we installed the wood-burning stove!
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