giant salamanders

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dirtyblacksocks;1569404; said:
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!
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into your apartment? what do you mean by this? your sure they were hellbenders?
 
Apartment complex area, during the rainy season they'd come out onto side walks and you could lift walking stones and find them grouped up underneath. Most of them were juvenilles and I'm fairly certain they were Hellbenders.
 
Nope, never looked into it. Keep in mind this was over 20 years ago, so I could be wrong. I just know that the adults were huge.

They were most likely newts and not salamanders now that I think about it, but meh.
 
i gotta get one of those....
 
wild caught;1569327; said:
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.
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I also work at the zoo. Small world.
 
I love salamanders but that doesnt loook like a salamander to me ofcourse it is but it reminds me of some mass of gel
 
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