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Barred Tiger Salamander
Ambystoma mavortium
The Barred Tiger Salamander is one of North America's largest terrestrial salamanders, recognized by its striking yellow or olive-green bars and spots against a dark background. This amphibian is secretive, spending most of its life underground in burrows, and emerging primarily…
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- Barred Tiger Salamanders can produce a sticky, toxic secretion from their skin to deter predators.
- Barred Tiger Salamanders are capable of regenerating lost limbs and even portions of their spinal cord. Their larvae are aquatic and have external gills, resembling tadpoles with legs. In some populations, certain individuals remain in the larval aquatic form for their entire lives, a phenomenon called 'neoteny.'
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