What are the life habits of salamanders?

Newts and water lizards are carnivores and feed on slow-moving animals, such as snails, slugs and worms. They walk slowly to their prey, and then quickly hunt for food with sharp teeth. Some species flick their tongues in the hope of catching small prey. Newts need little food because they move slowly. When they eat, they can store a lot of food and gain weight. Newts mainly feed at night and catch prey by their sense of smell.

protect

Newts can crawl very slowly on their short four feet, whether on the surface, trees or underground. Most salamanders have bright and beautiful body colors. Because they are poisonous, they use this bright and dazzling color to warn intruders, so that those eager predators will stay away. When the snake attacks the salamander, the salamander's tail secretes a glue-like substance, and they beat the snake's head mercilessly with their tails until Shekou is stuck by the secretion. Sometimes there will be a scene where a long snake is stuck together by salamander mucus and can't move.

place of residence

Newts have porous skin, which allows water and air to pass through. In hot and dry conditions, the skin must be kept moist to avoid dryness. When the weather becomes cold and wet, most species live in wet places, or just climb out at night. Aquatic species live in streams, lakes, ponds and caves. Terrestrial species hide under rocks, logs or burrowing soil, and some can climb trees.

China salamander

Amphioxus has a flat head, a round trunk, a very flat tail and a blunt tail tip. The limbs are long, with 4 fingers on the forelimbs and 5 toes on the hind limbs, and there are no webbed fingers and toes at the base. The skin is extremely rough, with scattered dark brown wart grains on the back and sides, and the thickness of the ventral wart is small, with irregular orange spots.

China salamanders often live in mountain streams or wet aquatic plants and cracks, and feed on the larvae of earthworms, shrimps and insects.