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Ambystoma maculatum
Recent metamorph... its spots are little speckles at this age.
Spotted in a dried-up swampy area under a little log in Chattahoochee River National Recreation Area, Georgia.
Spotted on Jun 11, 2011
Submitted on Aug 27, 2011
3 Comments
I remember raising these once they morph they become little gluttons :)
Wow... that's very interesting. I've heard that larval spotted salamanders can be cannibalistic and feed on other salamanders... but I can't say I have heard of an adult doing so!
one of my favorite pets as a kid was a very large spotted salamander
i found a smaller one at the same time but one day the little one was gone
we later learned that the big one ate him
i must have had the big one as a pet for at least two or three years