Showing posts with label Newts. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Newts. Show all posts

Monday, 9 June 2008

Meet Tiny

I call him Tiny











Because he's 'my Newt'
The Newt is an amphibian of the Salamandridae family, found in North America, Europe, and Asia. Their eggs are laid singly in ponds or slow-moving streams, attached to aquatic plants. This distinguishes them from the free-floating eggs of frogs, that are laid in clumps, or toads, that are laid in strings. The larvae leave the water as a terrestrial form called an eft, returning to the water when mature to live or to breed. The adult form has a lizard-like body and is either aquatic or semi-aquatic.
From Wikipedia
I came across this and many more in a local pond, the pond is stocked for fishing, as a resident turtle that someone as released into the wild as we do not have native ones.. the pond also supports Herons and ducks. I'll post the turtle tomorrow.