Spotted Salamander Research Paper

Decent Essays
The spotted salamander has yellow spottes and has a black body. The spotted salamander is found in the United States and canada. The spotted salamander is about 15 to 25 cm and 5.9 to
9.8 inches long. The spotted salamander stomch is pink and gray. The spotted salamander makes it's home in wood, hard wood, and forest areas. The spotted salamander spends the most of it's time under ground. Do you know that the spotted salamander can live up to 32 years. The spotted salamander eat's crickets, worms, insects, spiders, slugs, and other animals.The spotted salamander only hunts at night.
The spotted salamander has persion on it's neck. The spotted salamander is so cute. I really wan't one whan Im older. I will get it from my back yard. I

Related Documents

  • Superior Essays

    Nt1310 Unit 2 Assignment

    • 1000 Words
    • 4 Pages

    Foods: The two-toed amphiuma has been known to eat small fish, crustaceans, mollusks, snakes and other smaller reptiles, as well as smaller amphiumas (Conant and Collins…

    • 1000 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Superior Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Eurycea Rathbuni Essay

    • 1397 Words
    • 6 Pages

    Eurycea rathbuni otherwise known as Texas Blind Salamanders are incredible creatures that do not get their fair share of attention compared to animals such as cheetahs and lions. Specifically, they are only known to reside within the dark water filled caves of Edward’s Aquifer in Hays County, Texas.5 Thus, this species was discovered by the San Marcos National Fishery, which is now known as Texas State University.5,6 In 1967, Eurycea Rathbuni was listed as an endangered species, and within ten years it was entered into a breeding program at the San Marcos Fish Hatchery.3,6 The Texas Blind Salamander is a Eukaryotic organism that belongs to the Kingdom: Animalia; Phylum: Chordata; Class: Amphibia; Order: Caudata; and Family: Plethodontidae.5 All members of the Class Amphillia contain a vertebrate and four legs.7 Animals within this classification must also lay their eggs in water otherwise they will die…

    • 1397 Words
    • 6 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    And the reason that is hurting their existence is because not only do they lose their homes, but also their prey’s home. The Black Footed Ferret eats squirrels, mice, and other rodents, but their main course is the prairie dog. The Ferrets size allows them to go into the burrows of the prairie dog, and because they are nocturnal predators, they kill the prairie dogs while they are sleeping. Then when the ferret’s homes are attacked by their predators, they rely on abandoned prairie dog burrows for shelter. Also a disease known as the sylvatic plague, caused by fleas is killing off the…

    • 532 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Senwosret III

    • 628 Words
    • 3 Pages

    ¥ The temple is very similar to King Khafre’s mortuary temple. It has granite pillards that form a colonnade around a central courtyard. ¥ Senwosret III wore a pleated linen head cloth which was called a nemes headdress. It is surmounted by cobra, which represents the goddess Udjo, one of the protector’s of the king.…

    • 628 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    The Red-tailed Black-cockatoo is approximately 60cm in length and 615-870g in weight. The males of this species are a glossy black with red paneling on their tails where as the females have yellow marking on their head and body but with orange paneling on their tails. This can be the same for the juvenile as well. The surviving population of the two southern subspecies in the wild is approximately only 1,400 (Automix, 2016)). These cockatoos are now only found in the south-east of South Australia and the south-west of Victoria and in the south-west of western Australia.…

    • 488 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Decent Essays

    Salamander Case Summary

    • 130 Words
    • 1 Pages

    Based on this evidence presented, Mr. Salamander has failed to comply with a number of laws which are placed in order to protect the privacy of the patients. For example, one law is the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPPA). “Title II of HIPAA defines policies, procedures and guidelines for maintaining the privacy and security of individually identifiable health information”. [1] This law was enacted in order to protect an individual’s Protected Health Information (PHI). In this case, Bill and Anna, both who could be recognized as “offenses committed with the intent to sell, transfer, or use individually identifiable health information for commercial advantage, personal gain or malicious harm.…

    • 130 Words
    • 1 Pages
    Decent Essays
  • Improved Essays

    The Black-footed ferret, Mustela nigripes, is in the order Carnivora and the Family Mustelidae. The Black-footed ferret (BFF) looks like that of a weasel, with a body that is long, slender, weighting up to two pounds, with yellowish fur, and black fur on their feet, legs, tail tip, and a mask on their face[1]. They are closely related to the Siberian polecat and the European polecat[1]. They are fossorial and nocturnal hunters that can be seen during the day[1]. Most of their diet is prairie dogs, but they do eat voles, rabbits, and mice on occasion[1].…

    • 1533 Words
    • 7 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Decent Essays

    Cane Toad Research Paper

    • 298 Words
    • 2 Pages

    The cane toad, also known as the giant toad or marine toad, is n amphibian that is about 15 centimeters long and weighs about three pounds. Cane toads are a yellowish-brown color with dry, warty skin and a spotted belly. * Originally introduced to Australia by Hawaii, the cane toad is now native to South and Central America, Mexico, and extreme southern Texas. This toad was introduced to Australia from Hawii in June of 1935 by the Bureau of Sugar Experiment Stations to help control the cane beetle population. * The cane toad has become a problem in all of its habitats from Central and South America to Northern Australia.…

    • 298 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Decent Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Before I start typing this information about this lizard. I would like to give Morgan Phillips a shoutout for showing me this animal :) The leaping lesbian lizard is another name for the New Mexico Whiptail lizard. This lizard was produced through interbreeding of two native species of lizard. This lizard lives in southern United States and northern Mexico.…

    • 285 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    The axolotl’s scientific name is called Ambystoma mexicanum which is weird and looks like Spanish. I hope that you do not kill one of these because of the fact there almost extent. It is a water breathing salamander so it lives in the water and in mossy places. It is 9.1 inches long. It is also just like the tiger salamander.…

    • 149 Words
    • 1 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Non Native Species Essay

    • 743 Words
    • 3 Pages

    Native species are species that have evolved to in a particular region over a long period of time, and have adapted to live in that region’s climate and habitat. These species live in this region with all the other species to form an ecosystem. Non native species on the other hand, are species that are introduced to an area they're not used to by humans, either by accident, or intentionally (getthegreen). Invasive species are a type of non native species, that are very likely to cause harm to the ecosystem (NOAA). They destroy the habitat of other species, and eventually kill plants, and/or other species.…

    • 743 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Superior Essays

    Alligator Transcript

    • 1213 Words
    • 5 Pages

    Transcript Transcript of American Alligator (Alligator mississippiens) SCIN 130 Power Point presentation by Serena L. Sobolewski Introduction: The organism that I have chosen for this assignment is an animal, of the crocodilian family, called the American Alligator. The scientific name is Alligator mississipiens In Spanish it is is called El Legarto, meaning the lizard. The habitat preferred by the American Alligator is fresh water swamps, marshes, rivers, lakes, and occasionally smaller bodies of water, such as man-made retention ponds.…

    • 1213 Words
    • 5 Pages
    Superior Essays
  • Decent Essays

    The Tree Toad

    • 76 Words
    • 1 Pages

    The skin type of this animal is permeable. It has webbed feet. They live in tropical lowland forest habitats. All insects worms and snails is what the tree s frog prey for.…

    • 76 Words
    • 1 Pages
    Decent Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Essay On Axolotls

    • 574 Words
    • 3 Pages

    Axolotls Axolotls, Ambystoma mexicanum, are aquatic, neotenic salamanders that are a close relative of the tiger salamander and are often referred to as Mexican salamanders or Mexican walking fish (Clare, 1999). They are exclusively found in the lake complex of Xochimilco near Mexico City. Axolotls are small amphibians that only grow nine to 12 inches in length and 2.11 to eight ounces in weight; relatively, they are about the size of a tea cup (“Mexican Axolotl,” 2015). Though they can be captured and cared for as exotic pets, Mexican Salamanders are gradually becoming extinct and are considered “critically endangered” according to the IUCN, International Union for Conservation of Nature, Red List of Threatened Species (Zambrano, 2010). Axolotls…

    • 574 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Giraffe Essay

    • 1502 Words
    • 7 Pages

    Amazing facts about the giraffe You probably think you are tall but until you realize that a baby giraffe may probably be taller than you, then you realize how short you are. The giraffe is the tallest terrestrial mammal in the world, a true beauty amongst the animals that roam the savannahs of Africa.…

    • 1502 Words
    • 7 Pages
    Improved Essays