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Monday in Nature, January 1, 2018


sallymack

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Happy New Year, all of you! I plan to start it off right: I'll be headed out the door with camera in hand as soon as it gets light.

 

Meanwhile, I finally made a wildlife photo a couple of days ago for which the macro lens was actually an appropriate choice. This little guy is one of the most toxic critters in California, all due to an arms-race between rough-skinned newts (Taricha granulosa) and garter snakes, which are the only predator that can tolerate the toxin found in the newts’ skins. Garter snakes evolve increased resistance to the toxins at about the same rate as the newts evolve increased toxicity for protection against the garter snakes. The net result is a ridiculously toxic newt, actually capable of killing people. So don’t go around licking newts. [As for scale, this one would be about 15 cm long from nose to uncoiled tail tip. Prairie Creek Redwoods State Park]

 

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This photo is from our trip to Florida last March.

 

I am trying to channel the warmth... here in southwestern NH it is still -4 degrees F at 10:15 AM, the low last night was -10. The temperature has been hanging around zero for over a week.

 

Enough griping, here is the photo:

 

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--- Frank (www.gorga.org/blog)

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