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Southern Ravine Salamander (Plethodon richmondi), family Plethodontidae, WV, USA
photographs by Brady O'brien
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Northern Slimy Salamander (Plethodon glutinosus)
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The Vandyke's salamander (Plethodon vandykei) is a washington endemic species living near cold mountainous streams and waterfall splash zones.
Salamanders in the family Plethodontidae are called lungless salamanders due to them breathing through their skin rather than lungs. They depend on moisture to be able to breath so they're even more delicate than most amphibians.
Of the almost 800 species of salamanders ~400 of them are apart of the family Plethodontidae with all of them being in the America's besides 8 species. Many of these species are at risk of extinction because of the delicate habitat they can inhabit.
I just really love these dudes and want more people to be able to appreciate them like :)
#Plethodontidae#salamanders#caudata#plethodon#herpetology#wildlife photography#ecology#biology#endangered species#nature photography#macro#PNW
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Two amphibians! A salamander, Plethodon cinereus, and a toad, Anaxyrus americanus. P. cinereus is the only member of its genus found this far up north in eastern Maine. A. americanus seemed common in and around the coastal spruce forests too, saw a couple of them.
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Some animal (but mostly herpetology) Valentine Cards I made through the power of Snapchat. NOT ALL IMAGES ARE MINE! Also some of these are inside jokes but I think they can still be appreciated.
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red-backed salamander (Plethodon cinereus)
#naturalist#nature photography#wildlife#salamanders#amphibians#animals#herpetology#plethodon cinereus
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we found all seven of these under one log
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Little finds today in tree ID class <3
Bird skull (any idea on who it belongs to?) (Robin?)
Ravine salamander, Plethodon richmondi
Bitternut hickory nut, Carya cordiformis
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The specialist little guy in the entire world!!!!!!
#ribbits#herps#salamanders#western red-backed salamander#yes hes yellow just trust me on this#plethodon vehiculum#plethodontidae
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Red-cheeked Salamander (Plethodon jordani), family Plethodontidae, Smoky Mountains, TN, USA
photograph by Frank Gebhard
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I'm sorry if this has already been shared to Tumblrverse previously, I scrolled through #threshold day but didn't see it.
ANYWAY
The vagina museum has a say to this sacred occurrence, so there.
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A very happy #ThresholdDay to all who celebrate. If you haven't yet read our analysis of whether Janeway and Tom Paris fucked when they were lizards, today is the perfect day!
OLD THREAD REPOST
On 29th January 1996, "Threshold", the Star Trek: Voyager episode where Captain Janeway and Tom Paris turned into giant space newts and had babies first aired. Since it's #ThresholdDay we aim to answer a burning question: did Paris and Janeway fuck? If so, how did they fuck?
In attempting to answer the question as to whether Janeway and Paris fucked, and how they did it, we're going to mostly focus on salamanders, because the weird space amphibians they become are often described as "salamanders" and they look kinda like salamanders.
The first thing you need to know about amphibians is that they don't have genitals per se. As amphibians, Janeway and Paris had cloacas: a multipurpose hole for pee, poo and reproduction.
Salamanders are interesting because different species employ different strategies for fertilisation. Some use external fertilisation: Janeway plops her eggs out, Paris fertilises them. Some practice internal fertilisation, which we'll get onto later.
If Janeway and Paris engaged in external fertilisation, they would have undertaken a manoeuvre called amplexus. Tom Paris would have come up behind Captain Janeway and embraced her with his forelimbs. They would position their cloacas close together.
When Janeway released her eggs, Paris would have released sperm over them. Amplexus can last for hours.
Essentially, Janeway and Paris went tantric.
However, most salamanders don't do amplexus. Fertilisation would happen inside Janeway's body before she laid her eggs. This isn't achieved by penetration. It's much weirder.
If the fertilisation was internal, Tom Paris would have deposited a parcel of sperm called a spermatophore, and then Captain Janeway would pick the package up with the lips of her cloaca to take it into herself.
That sounds reasonably contact free, right? So why are Janeway and Paris so embarrassed about what happened at the end of the episode?
Welp, there's a lot of courtship rituals which would have happened before Janeway picked up Paris's cum parcel with her pee-poo hole lips.
Salamanders court: it's in Tom Paris's interests to make sure Janeway chooses to pick up his package of sperm. Salamander courtship typically involves seduction and dancing.
Tom Paris would have wafted pheromones at Janeway, and then the two of them would have engaged in some dance moves, first with Paris turning round to deposit his sperm package, then Janeway turning to pick it up.
In some salamanders, the pheromone exchange is as simple as Tom Paris fanning his tail at Captain Janeway so she can get a whiff and get in the mood for collecting his sperm package. Sometimes it's a bit kinkier.
If they took a lead from Desmognathus, Paris would drag his teeth down Janeway's neck and back while releasing pheromones, getting his horny chemicals straight into her bloodstream.
If they took a lead from Plethodon shermani, Paris would slap Janeway's snout.
Ultimately, there would have been seduction, close contact dancing, tail straddling and possibly a bit of kink. So that's presumably why Janeway, Paris and pretty much the entire Voyager crew are absolutely mortified and the entire sorry interlude is absolutely never mentioned again.
At the end of the episode, human again, Paris apologises for the salamander sex but Janeway points out that in many species, the female initiates the intercourse. Is that true?
In general, the way salamander sex is talked about, the male is doing everything he can to persuade the female to pick up his spermatophore. He's the active one and the female is passive. A 2020 literature review suggests this is not the case: the female is an active participant.
Ultimately, Janeway was probably quite right in admitting her responsibility in having salamander sex with her pilot, and that she *chose* to pick up his little parcel of jizz and have his space abomination babies.
Thank you for reading. We're sorry.
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Source: the Vagina Museum official Mastodon account. Original thread here.
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A couple of salamanders I saw on my last hike (I believe they are dunn's salamanders Plethodon dunni)
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Uncharismatic Fact of the Day
In the animal kingdom, sentimentality doesn't go very far. Female red back salamanders spend about two months guarding their clutch, which contains anywhere from 4 to 17 eggs. However, if any of the eggs die she won't hesitate to eat them-- not only does she gain valuable nutrients, but eating the dead eggs helps prevent the spread of infection to the rest of the clutch. Though it may seem gruesome, this behavior is common among egg-laying animals.
(Image: A red back salamander (Plethodon cinereus) by Will Lattea)
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@plethodon-uncia submitted: A friend! Maybe a crab spider? On a sword fern in northern california
Yep! Likely a goldenrod crab spider. I love her :)
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Ozark Zigzag Salamander - Plethodon angusticlavius
When we first started seeing these guys down in Missouri, we assumed they were Southern Redback Salamanders - they look very similar! The differences are just a few minute changes in their patterns, so it was very hard to tell!
The babies especially are incredibly small, and even the adults aren't much bigger than 2-3 inches, so be gentle with them!
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