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My first ammodytes this year

Nose horned Viper without horn by Aleksandar Simović, on Flickr

Wow, beautiful ammo. Finally I can add some pictutes too. Encouraged with your photos I took my chances last week and checked my favourite pond.
R. temporaria








B. bufo

Toad bus



mating ball


mating fenzy


R. arvalis






first and only Pelophylax ssp., anybody knows why he opened mouth?



N. natrix


and salamanders from different habitat



I have a documentation of interaction between these two guys, I´ll post it later, like to hear your explanation...


Cheers,
T.

great atavistic ammo
and a very nice serie of amphibians.
thanks to both of you for sharing!

Mario Schweiger wrote:great atavistic ammo
and a very nice serie of amphibians.
thanks to both of you for sharing!

Atavistic?!

adjective: of, relating to, or characterized by atavism; reverting to or suggesting the characteristics
of a remote ancestor or primitive type.

So, Sale has just found something like a Coelacanth, and nobody reacts?! Just - look how nice frogs I've
photographed these days, thank you...?! I'm deeply disappointed... What kind of people are you all?

Regarding the (finds & photos of) amphibians themselves, very, very nice indeed. No joking.

My cat was playing with this young sand lizard untill i rescued the lizard, it was not harmed fortunately.


This year I saw at least 2 pairs of Bufo bufo bufo in amplexus in my garden ponds, at least one pair laid eggs. The photo below was taken one pair was traveling from one pond to another- probably the previous one had not enough things in water to wrap eggs around, or maybe toads did not want their tadpoles to compete with tadpoles of another pair which probably laid eggs there. As you see the female is molting.
[url=https://flic.kr/p/T1fkuW]

Now let me post underwater photos of smooth newts taken in a garden pond of my friend. Temperature of air was 14*C but it was cloudy so I had to use flash many times which made pics unnatural. I am not very content with the pics, I hope to do better ones in near future.
males
















female


density of newts is high


here the clips I made
Lissotriton vulgaris vulgaris in Poland- tail fanning
https://youtu.be/jquuTH0fLDE

Lissotriton vulgaris vulgaris in a garden pond in Poland
https://youtu.be/_Oh_7N9eJ0Q

Lissotriton vulgaris vulgaris- a female
https://youtu.be/UbSjcHaspDo

Lissotriton vulgaris vulgaris in mating season
https://youtu.be/K_RMdLQ7I-4

Lissotriton vulgaris vulgaris- a male and a famale
https://youtu.be/MkvSjBEcSTU

Hello,

The "horn" of the ammodytes is missing...wich is justify the adjective.
That's probably why Mario used this word

Newts all over the ponds

Frédéric Seyffarth wrote:Hello,
The "horn" of the ammodytes is missing...wich is justify the adjective.
That's probably why Mario used this word

Thanks for this very revealing explanation. I quit.

Hi,

this sequence is from a sunny Tuesday, 04.04.2017.

Awesome photos, Ulrich! What a great experience to have.

A warm day in London means the adders spent most of the day in the shade/sun mosaic, but they were still quite visible. Males and females have sloughed now, although no sign of mate-searching or guarding behaviour was observed.



Also saw a fox out hunting in the day