Salamanders - page 2

Are salamander warm blooded?
Salamanders (and other amphibians and reptiles) are ectothermic. This means that they generally have to rely on the environment as a heat source, and ...
Is a salamander a cold blooded?
Amphibians are a class of cold-blooded vertebrates made up of frogs, toads, salamanders, newts, and caecilians (wormlike animals with poorly developed...
Are salamanders predator or prey?
Salamanders are opportunistic predators. They are generally not restricted to specific foods, but feed on almost any organism of a reasonable size. La...
Can you feed your pet salamander fisd food?
By setting up a breeding colony, you can assure a steady supply of suitably-sized roaches for both small and large salamanders. A diet of fish food fl...
What do baby salimanders eat?
Young salamanders will often eat small daphnia or cyclopsen (small microorganisms in pond water). After a few weeks they will eat larger daphnia. A fe...
Does a salamamander lay eggs?
BREEDING: Female salamanders lay eggs every other year, beginning at five years old. Females brood their embryos throughout the summer, mate during th...
Do salemanders lay eggs?
BREEDING: Female salamanders lay eggs every other year, beginning at five years old. Females brood their embryos throughout the summer, mate during th...
Is a northern redback salamander a vertebrate?
In short, Eastern Red-backed Salamanders are easily the most abundant vertebrate in many northeastern hardwood forests and their combined mass dwarfs ...
Is salamander a vertebrate?
Salamanders are the only tetrapod vertebrates capable of having an exclusively hypogean life cycle. ... Troglobiotic salamanders are found in North Am...