Salamandra salamandra terrestris trip

[Pierre-Yves Vaucher]

Hi ! Nice female in first ! lot of yellow. You know exist fast completly Salamandra salamandra terrestris near Holzminden area, more north ?

[Paul Bachhausen]

Hi Michal

What do you mean? What are the differences between wild axolotl and the domesticated ones?

Of topic, so only a short answer:
Ambystoma mexicanum is nearly extinct in the wild. But all over the world millions of Axolotl are bred. That seems to be a good stock for species conservation, but this is wrong!
The first Axolotl came to Europe in 1804. A white Axolotl came to Europe in 1868. Later 1960 Humphrey made hybridization with Tiger salamanders to get albinos (Humphrey axolotl).
Today nearly all kept Axolotls are these hybrids - useless for conservation.
Paul

[Paul Bachhausen]

Hi Pierre

You know exist fast completly Salamandra salamandra terrestris near Holzminden area, more north ?

not more in North.
But most there are also not high yellow, look:



but also this:

more:
http://www.salamanderseiten.de/salamand ... olling.htm
Paul

[Jeroen Speybroeck]

Needless to say I enjoy every Salamandra post with more than special attention, so thanks! Although some animals look quite remarkable, they practically all fit within the variability of the population I am so fond of, except that fastuosa-like morph which can be found in other Belgian populations (cf. Bert's posts).

I am too lazy to check the reading material I have, so I'm just going to ask: does anyone know about the percentage of natural occurrence of orange individuals within German terrestris populations?

[Paul Bachhausen]

Hi Jeroen,
I don't know literature about the percentage of natural occurrence of orange individuals. I think it is very different in the different populations.
I saw thousends of terrestris in North Rhine Westfalia, but never saw a red or orange in Nature.
The only one with unusual colour was this axantic one in Ratingen:

Paul

[Jeroen Speybroeck]

Cool!

[Paul Bachhausen]

an article about this trip:
http://www.salamanderseiten.de/salamand ... tingen.pdf

[Bobby Bok]

That really is an interesting animal, thanks for sharing!