All about salamander, black and yellow amphibian

This is one of the beautiful encounters that you can make in a slightly damp area of ​​the forest or at the edge of a pond. Between two leaves, or in the hollow of a rock, the bright or orange yellow of the patterns of the Salamander offers a bright spectacle in the dark.

This warm color shapes on the black and shiny body of the animal either isolated spots, or shiny stripes like sparks of fire springing darkness. To the point that legend gave this fascinating amphibian the power to bathe in the flames without being consumed. Christian spirituality has seen the symbol of faith that does not go out.

A toxic and silent amphibian

But there, in this corner of the forest, things are more prosaic and simple. Because this little gunman, with an elongated body and a little dried, is deaf to everything that is said of him. In the literal sense first, since it has neither middle ear nor tympanum.

It is that he does not need to hear from possible predators: the toxin gives off his skin is enough to make them flee. Thus assured, the animal moves with a slowness. Just what it takes to catch a cloport or a slug in the passage of its ordinary diet

Growing up, the animal gets rid of its old skins several times, rubbing against rocks or a piece of wood. The old membrane is first detached by the head and then gradually to the end of the body. A difficult operation, which sometimes causes a dangerous or even deadly suffocation in young salamanders. The fire then goes out for good.