Re: It's always worth it to go out (for Salamandra) ;-)
Posted: Thu Feb 23, 2017 10:37 am
Awesome picture/observation!
Jeroen Speybroeck wrote:A March mating attempt thus surprises. Temperature was high; maybe that got the hormones boiling...
Jeroen Speybroeck wrote:Another fun fact - penultimate observation of the envolved female was at the end of January, when she was still gravid.
Ilian Velikov wrote:Jeroen Speybroeck wrote:Another fun fact - penultimate observation of the envolved female was at the end of January, when she was still gravid.
So was she still gravid now, I can't tell from the photo? Or did she deposit larvae first and then went on to mate again?
Jeroen Speybroeck wrote:She might have still been carrying some larvae, but (in contrast to the previous observation) she was not big enough to qualify as positively gravid.