Red Salamander (IMAGE)

Penn State

Red Salamander

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To stay cool and not burn energy, salamanders have evolved strategies such as burrowing under rocks and logs. But if they are hiding to stay cool for much longer periods, they are not foraging and eating, and at the end of a long summer their condition is deteriorated.

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David Munoz

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