courting satin bowerbirds
(photos by aaardvaark)
fortheloveofherpetology: Red Spotted Eastern Newt (Notophthalmus viridescens)
- Found throughout New Hampshire
- Pictures above are of the “Red Eft”, which is the terrestrial juvenile phase of the eastern newt,and are commonly seen out in the open on moist woodland floors. The orange skin of the red-eft warns predators of its toxicity
- The eft stage may be confused with the Redback salamander
- Up to 400 eggs are attached singly to submerged vegetation in ponds, lakes, or swamps. Larvae are aquatic. Juvenile red-efts spend 1-3 years on land before returning to the water. Adults may be active all winter on pond bottoms or in streams
Also in Massachusetts cause I find them all the time! :3
I was weirdly obsessed with these little guys as a kid. Newts and salamanders. I was always looking for books about them.
Puerto Rican Semi-slug (Gaeotis flavolineata)
This is an arboreal semi-slug. Semi-slugs are relatives of snails that seem to be “half way” between snails and slugs. For example, their shells are very lightly calcified, and in some cases reduced in size. Species often have flaps of mantle which partly or wholly cover the shell - as is the case with this species.
(text via: thefeaturedcreature.com) (photos: Alfredo Colon)* I want to make a note that slugs are really just snails without shells. They are all pulmonate terrestrial gastropods, and the adaptation of being shell-less has arisen at different times and in different families amongst land snails. Some slugs are even in the same familes as shelled land snails. - paxonAWW IT HAS A LITTLE SADDLE
