Salamanders and Newts

Most Salamanders are harmless. be careful handling, as they do have teeth.

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No. Mammals are warm-blooded creatures with fur, skin or hair, and they give birth to live young which they then feed with mother's milk.

Like a mammal, a salamander is a vertebrate, but that is where the similarities virtually end. A salamander has moist skin, and is cold-blooded. It lays eggs and has to live in water for part of its life. The salamander is a member of the amphibian family, like frogs, toads, newts and axolotls.

They are classed as amphibians - or were in my biology classes 40 years ago...

It depends on where you are purchasing them from.

If you find them at a pet store that sells them as an amphibian (meaning they'll house them in that department) they can be around $30-$50; their price is usually based on their age/size/variation. If you find them in an aquarium store, they will most often be a little less pricey.

If you can get them from a local breeder they range between $10-$30 on average; again, price is based on age/size/color variation. Most breeders do not advertise their stock outside of being a distributor to pet stores so they can be difficult to locate and get in touch with (and your neighborhood pet store will not disclose who they buy from willingly because they want you to spend your dollar there).

However, if you search for a reptile/amphibian or exotic pet show/fair you can usually find a breeder or two present and more than willing to make a deal, especially if you're interested in acquiring several of their live stock. Many large cities across the US will have an organization that will host a monthly or bi-monthly pet trade/swap for a variety of animals, housing, maintenance supplies and foods. It's well worth the effort to look into finding one near you as you'll save over 30-60% over the final cost of purchasing from a large chain pet store. Not to mention, the quality of the animals directly from the breeders tend to be much higher and since the breeders are present, you are able to ask them any question regarding the life, habitat and care of the animals.

Bears do have opposable thumbs. Some bears have a special bone found in their wrists. Its their sixth toe and it is an opposable thumb. It is used for grasping bamboo. They use this bone in the same way humans use their thumbs, mainly for grasping food. Most species do not have opposable thumbs.

Yes, the Eastern Red-Spotted Newt (Notophthalmus viridescens viridescens) secretes a poison from its skin similar to the tetrodotoxin found in pufferfish (the Japanese delicacy "fugu"). But is it primarily poisonous to other animals that might try to eat it. From most reports, it is not poisonous enough to hurt humans (unless of course, you eat a plate full of them).

i have eaten 1 the doctors told me I was gona die!It was a horrible experience.I still have problems.

yes. salamanders have a larva body, and an adult phase that are very different. don't believe me? see for yourself. just go to google images and look up larva tiger salamander, and adult tiger salamander. see the difference?

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try "pin-head" crickets (the smallest size they come, you may have to special order thee on the internet or form a pet store). They are a decent candidate and probably the easiest to get in quantity.

The smallest red wigglers (worms) you can get; you may have to get a bunch and pick out the tiniest ones

Springtails are good (tiny white bugs in found temeperate soil everywhere) usually you have to get these from somebody who "raises" them or "get" them form outside soils.

I have had some success getting tiny salamanders to eat live blood worms or black worms (which are aquatic and so they die on land after a few minutes) its not ecconomical but you can buy a bunch, store them in the refrigerator and present a few worms at a time to the salamander (get these at any pet store which sells lots of trpoical fish) Don't get frozen or freeze=dried (these won't work) don't bother trying petco, petland or petsmart as they don't carry them live.

Also live fruit flies are available at some good pet stores (or again on the internet) try these.

A salamander is a vertebrate, which means it has a backbone.

This salamander eats crabs, shrimps, aquatic insects, fish and frogs.

yes it feeds on wastes and eat other dead things

It depends on which story you follow. In the book series and the movie adaptation of Streets of Laredo they say he was killed by being thrown from his Woodrows former horse. However, there was also a series produced that follows his life after Lonesome Dove and doesn't have him die, in that series he goes by the name Newt Call.

No one may ever know. I have read online and they are very technical

Yes, newts have toxins in their skin ranging from being an irritant to deadly to humans. Taricha torosa (California Newt) and Taricha granulosa (Rough Skinned Newt) are very toxic. Ingesting any of the toxins will kill a healthy adult.

alakacrap and presto yo mum is a newt as ugly as yo face

well, there are over more than 5000 kinds of lizard species in the desert and over 1000 kinds of lizard species in a town or city where there is no desert........i think that is right but if it is not true than sorry for this info...........:)

newts have four legs just like most animals have

Skin.

Both has eyes, a mouth, and 4 limbs.

Salamanders are carnivores.

Leopard geckos will start to shed the day that they leave the egg. Most geckos will not start to eat or move around all too much until they have had their first shed. This can take up 2-4 days typically.

they eat chopped earth worms or frozen, blood worms and newt food which u can buy at probably any pet store i know this cause i have one!! lol

When a newt comes out of the egg, but still stays in the water it is called a larva
Some newts have a terrestrial juvenile stage these are called efts.

Some people just call them "kewt".