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Wandering salamanders can spend their entire life cycle hundreds of feet above the ground in the canopy of redwood trees. And as a result, they’re pretty well suited to climbing – and skydiving.
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Sources:
https://www.massaudubon.org/nature-wildlife/reptiles-amphibians/salamanders
https://www.discoverwildlife.com/animal-facts/amphibians/olm-salamander
https://amphibiaweb.org/species/5289
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/jmor.70026
https://www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822(22)00602-9
https://californiaherps.com/salamanders/pages/a.vagrans.html
https://www.froglife.org/2025/01/01/climbing-salamanders-perspectives-from-great-heights/
http://www.bioone.org/doi/full/10.1643/OT-14-214
https://www.nps.gov/articles/000/clouded-salamander.htm
https://cdnsciencepub.com/doi/abs/10.1139/z98-091
https://www.canada.ca/en/environment-climate-change/services/species-risk-public-registry/cosewic-assessments-status-reports/wandering-salamander-2014.html
https://biodb.com/taxa/climbing-salamanders/
https://nrm.dfg.ca.gov/FileHandler.ashx?DocumentID=1539
https://research.fs.usda.gov/treesearch/25045
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https://journals.biologists.com/jeb/article/225/20/jeb244598/277384/Aerial-maneuvering-by-plethodontid-salamanders
https://www.science.org/content/article/watch-salamanders-skydive-wind-tunnel
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=5393778
https://www.livescience.com/14667-tall-trees-grow.html
https://floranorthamerica.org/Sequoia_sempervirens
https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2025.1295
https://www.jstor.org/stable/2407944
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/ece3.5267
https://www.oregonencyclopedia.org/glossary/glacial%20refugia
https://www.fs.usda.gov/database/feis/plants/tree/notden/all.html
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Thumbnail salamander image by Christian Brown
Images:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Vb1YoLnYSJx8WYYB2yKu4-33kB20AGmbmhSNR_hTPyc/edit?tab=t.0
Wandering salamanders can spend their entire life cycle hundreds of feet above the ground in the canopy of redwood trees. And as a result, they’re pretty well suited to climbing – and skydiving.
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You can cancel any time by emailing hello@dftba.com
Our past pins are buy three, get one free right now! https://complexly.store/collections/bizarre-beasts
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#BizarreBeasts #salamander
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Sources:
https://www.massaudubon.org/nature-wildlife/reptiles-amphibians/salamanders
https://www.discoverwildlife.com/animal-facts/amphibians/olm-salamander
https://amphibiaweb.org/species/5289
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/jmor.70026
https://www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822(22)00602-9
https://californiaherps.com/salamanders/pages/a.vagrans.html
https://www.froglife.org/2025/01/01/climbing-salamanders-perspectives-from-great-heights/
http://www.bioone.org/doi/full/10.1643/OT-14-214
https://www.nps.gov/articles/000/clouded-salamander.htm
https://cdnsciencepub.com/doi/abs/10.1139/z98-091
https://www.canada.ca/en/environment-climate-change/services/species-risk-public-registry/cosewic-assessments-status-reports/wandering-salamander-2014.html
https://biodb.com/taxa/climbing-salamanders/
https://nrm.dfg.ca.gov/FileHandler.ashx?DocumentID=1539
https://research.fs.usda.gov/treesearch/25045
https://zslpublications.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/jzo.12934
https://journals.biologists.com/jeb/article/225/20/jeb244598/277384/Aerial-maneuvering-by-plethodontid-salamanders
https://www.science.org/content/article/watch-salamanders-skydive-wind-tunnel
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=5393778
https://www.livescience.com/14667-tall-trees-grow.html
https://floranorthamerica.org/Sequoia_sempervirens
https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2025.1295
https://www.jstor.org/stable/2407944
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/ece3.5267
https://www.oregonencyclopedia.org/glossary/glacial%20refugia
https://www.fs.usda.gov/database/feis/plants/tree/notden/all.html
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Thumbnail salamander image by Christian Brown
Images:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Vb1YoLnYSJx8WYYB2yKu4-33kB20AGmbmhSNR_hTPyc/edit?tab=t.0
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