Spotted Salamander by Yuval W.

SPOTTED SALAMANDER LIFE

CIYCLE

by YUVAL WEINSTEIN

STAGES OF LIFE CYCLE

HOW A

SALAMANDER

F U N

F A C T S

A B O U T S A L A M A N D E R S

SURVIVES

table of contents 1-3 Stages Of Life Cycle

4 How a Salamander Survives

5-6 Fun Facts

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STAGE ONE: EGG The salamander hatches as an egg. The egg is laid in the water. The female lays hundreds of eggs. The eggs are covered with poisonous matter so nothing will eat them.

The mom salamander lays about 100 eggs. It takes 30 days for the eggs to hatch. They have good eyes and strong tails and a working mouth. They have gills to breathe underwater.

The gills look like feathers on the side of the head.

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STAGE TWO: NYMPHS The salamanders hatch from eggs as a larva, or nymph. First they live in water. (They look like tadpoles but just a little different). They breath using gills. When they get older they grow arms and legs.

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STAGE THREE: ADULT As adults some salamander travel miles away from were they were born. Then they find a mate and go back to were they were born to lay their eggs.

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WHAT SALAMANDERS EAT: Worms, crickets, millepede, slugs, spiders.

salamander survives: many salamanders have glands on their neck or tail to give their predator bad tasteing or evin poisonous. Some salamanders can also protect themselves from predators by squee zing their muscles to make spikes into the predator.

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fun facts: 1 Spotted salamanders live in eastern Canada.

2 spotted salamanders get up to nine inches small.

3 People say that spotted salamanders are hard to spot.

4 Sad: More then 90Â percent of spotted salamanders die before there last stage.

5 Salamanders live up to 20 years old.

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fun facts:

6 The males are slightly bigger then the females.

7 Spotted salamanders produce bad toxic smell in the back of there tails to protect from predators.

8 The spotted salamander is known as Ohio's state amphibian.

9 Spotted salamanders have yellow spots on them to warn their predators that they are toxic.