Talk:Salamander

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Contents 1 An image 2 Totally useless trivia 3 What the Heck do they eat 4 The stamp image 5 Shmuzel 6 life cycle 7 Please Identify this Critter 8 Flamewalkers 9 My Salamader 10 Citing of Farragut 11 According 12 Genus and Species

[edit] An image

(William M. Connolley 20:39, 1 Sep 2004 (UTC)) I have uploaded

. I don't know anything about salamanders though (except they are pretty, rare and interesting!) so will leave it to a bio to add this to the page; or not.

[edit] Totally useless trivia

The Finnish plural partitive case for salamanteri (salamander) is salamantereita, which is also the same case for salamanner, meaning "secret continent". — JIP | Talk 13:23, 3 Jun 2005 (UTC)

[edit] What the Heck do they eat

[edit] The stamp image

Isn't the use of the stamp to illustrate a salamander contrary to the fair use guidelines spelled out on the image's page? Mr D Logan 05:31, 18 September 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Shmuzel

[edit] life cycle

Should there be something about the salamander life cycle? How its like frogs where there is eggs/larvae/adult?

-Ravedave 17:35, 22 December 2005 (UTC) They live about 20 years. Some spend their life in water, others in and out of the water, and others spend their entire adult life on land.

[edit] Please Identify this Critter

I found a Salamander in my pool. It's been there for at least 3 days clingling to the tile just above the water line. Its body is brown striped and the tail is bright, almost flourescent, blue. It looks like he was designed specically for my pool because the body is the same shade of brown as the pool tile and the tail blends in with the blue water. I've been doing research on the internet but I can't find this particular species. My daughter wants to make a pet of it, what would it's favorite habitat consist of? What would we feed it?

Are you sure it isn't a Western Skink? The juveniles have bright blue tails (pic here). --liquidGhoul 04:14, 21 July 2006 (UTC)

Are there any salamanders or newts which live in saltwater areas, or are they only in freshwater habitats?

First, it's a bad idea to keep wild animals, they can be dangerous and it's better for them to be free. Second, salamanders don't live in saltwater environments. Also, I don't know of any salamander with a blue tail, it's probably a kind of lizard known as the skink. Many skinks not only have blue tails, but also take readily to water. Dora Nichov 12:08, 3 September 2006 (UTC)

By the way, your herptile (reptiles and amphibians, we don't know if it was a lizard or a salamander) was NOT specially designed for your pool by nature, 'cause nature didn't make your pool. Both salamanders and skinks eat invertebrates. Dora Nichov 12:10, 3 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Flamewalkers

Uh, I am not too up on WarCraft Lore, but I've played the game into the ground pre-Blackwing Lair. The Flamewalkers look a helluva lot like the WoW represenation of naga, and very little like salamanders- does anyone know of an in-game reference that somehow links the two?

And, uh, weren't there ACTUAL salamanders in Searing Gorge? Y'know, the ones you get scales from for the Dark Iron faction? I can't recall, was Engineering myself, and my WoW account isn't active presently, so I can't check... if anyone could look into that...

I can't say I have any idea what you are talking about, as the last Warcraft I player was Warcraft III, and I didn't get into story line and such. Anyway, they may have been called salamanders, but a salamander does not have scales. --liquidGhoul 09:52, 23 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] My Salamader

My salamader's anme is booshae. WE caught he from the wild but we will be putting him back when it is warm enough for him. When we found him knew we had to help booshae. He was in a cicle huddling him self and looked frozen, we even thought he was dead untill my dad picked him up. So we took him home but we don't know what kind he is and what to feed him but of course we got him yesterday. He was in my brother's freind's screen area, he even had some broken screen around one of his fingers. He is Black with yellow spots and he has eyes that would blend in with a rock. And might i say he loves the water and to be rubbed, we always have washed hands before and after we touch him. He is already used to the family i known i will be sad when he leaves. My parents were thinking about getting him crikets or grasshoppers to get him.

This isn't a place to post personal experiences. Blue Mirage | Comment 05:52, 16 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Citing of Farragut

The Comment Adm. David Glasgow Farragut, famous for proclaiming "Damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead", was nick-named Old Salamander for his great naval exploits during the Civil War. Torpedoes refer to ocean mines.
Can we get a cite or reference for this or I believe it should be removed.
Markco1 17:27, 16 November 2006 (UTC) Never mind I fixed it and created a wiki link to him.

[edit] According

to a cnn report, today, there is a study of salamander regrowth, to train human bodies to regrow, particularly regarding limbs, possibly otherwise as well.

Thank You.

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[edit] Genus and Species

Q: Can somone put up the Genus and Species of the Salamander? That would be greatly appreciated, and doing it ASAP would help. Thank you!

A: There are hundreds, if not thousands of different salamander species. One example is Ambystoma maculatum.