The great salamander migration has begun! ...and ended... Every spring there is a small window of time when adult spotted salamanders emerge from their subterranean homes and mate in nearby seasonal wetlands. Bill, Steve, Rich, and Donna venture out to find these elusive critters.
The first half of the episode takes place at Beaver Meadow Audubon center and is recorded in the typical style (...we see one salamander). The second half takes place at Donna's property and is much more free-form than usual (AND we see more salamanders than we can count). Enjoy!
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Work Cited:
http://animaldiversity.org/site/accounts/information/Ambystoma_maculatum.html
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https://www.nature.com/news/2010/100730/full/news.2010.384.html
Pintar, M.R. and Resetarits, W.J., 2017. Persistence of an egg mass polymorphism in Ambystoma maculatum: differential performance under high and low nutrients. Ecology, 98(5), pp.1349-1360.