giant salamanders
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Saw a hellbender at the Pittsburgh Zoo back in the day, pretty cool. They're pretty much a Japanese giant in miniature...I think they bite too just like the Asian ones.
I've posted this picture before, but it's a Giant Salamander Thread...
I took this picture in the woods about 3 miles from my house. He was about a foot long and very stocky. These are the largest terrestrial salamander in the world, but not near the size of a Hellbender.
I took this picture in the woods about 3 miles from my house. He was about a foot long and very stocky. These are the largest terrestrial salamander in the world, but not near the size of a Hellbender.
i work on a hellbender breeding project at the st. louis zoo, with both subspecies. missouri is the only state to have both subspecies, their numbers have dropped drastically in the last 20 years. we also have 2 davidianus at the zoo, which just got put on display with lots of other phibs for a amphibean gallery.
Some one must have released a breeding pair of Hellbenders into my apartment complex when I was a kid because I can dinstinctly recall there literally being hundreds of them out of hiding on very rainy days during one season when I was about 6.
Not knowing any better at the time I'd catch them and put them in tubs of water, which killed every single one I caught within about 30 minutes. I could never figure out why they were dying. Makes me feel bad now that I think about it!
Not knowing any better at the time I'd catch them and put them in tubs of water, which killed every single one I caught within about 30 minutes. I could never figure out why they were dying. Makes me feel bad now that I think about it!
dont you hate that crap,i remember killing some little frogs due to over drying.Guess we make up for it now,lol.dirtyblacksocks;1569404; said:
