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------=_Part_4088_33151789.1211318584434 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline > > > Well, I learned something new today - I do most days, probably everyday, but this was a relative biggie for me. I think from early on, most kids learn that some lizards can drop their tails when faced with a predator. The tail continues to wiggle, diverting the predator's attention and the lizard gets away. I did not know that some salamanders can also do this - a very quick Google search told me that this may be confined to small ones (i.e. we would not expect our Yellow-spotted Salamanders to do this, I don't think). Today I was out in the woods with two students. One of them discovered a Red-backed Salamander with it's dropped tail next to it. Now I've picked up dozens, if not hundreds of these little guys, and have never had them drop a tail on me. This one had the dropped tail when discovered...perhaps it had just been attacked by a snake or larger salamander and the student scared it off? Anyway, I had my camera with me and took a picture and a short movie. I've posted it at: http://people.stfx.ca/rlauff/personel/recent.html. Enjoy, Randy _________________________________ RF Lauff Way in the boonies of Antigonish County, NS. ------=_Part_4088_33151789.1211318584434 Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline <div class="gmail_quote"> <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid"> <div> </div></blockquote></div> <div><br>Well, I learned something new today - I do most days, probably everyday, but this was a relative biggie for me. I think from early on, most kids learn that some lizards can drop their tails when faced with a predator. The tail continues to wiggle, diverting the predator's attention and the lizard gets away.<br clear="all"> </div> <div>I did not know that some salamanders can also do this - a very quick Google search told me that this may be confined to small ones (i.e. we would not expect our Yellow-spotted Salamanders to do this, I don't think).</div> <div> </div> <div>Today I was out in the woods with two students. One of them discovered a Red-backed Salamander with it's dropped tail next to it. Now I've picked up dozens, if not hundreds of these little guys, and have never had them drop a tail on me. This one had the dropped tail when discovered...perhaps it had just been attacked by a snake or larger salamander and the student scared it off?</div> <div> </div> <div>Anyway, I had my camera with me and took a picture and a short movie. I've posted it at: http://people.stfx.ca/rlauff/personel/recent.html.</div> <div> </div> <div>Enjoy,<br>Randy<br>_________________________________<br>RF Lauff<br>Way in the boonies of<br>Antigonish County, NS. </div> ------=_Part_4088_33151789.1211318584434--
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