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cainhowlett · 4 months

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Part of the upper watershed where newts and yellow legged frogs dwell in pools that adjoin cascading waterfalls.

#art #california #nature #bay area #mendocino #sonoma #amphibians #newt #picoftheday #photography #forest #water #pools

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catfindr · 8 months

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#petfinder #catfinder #cat #kitten #kitty #newt #flame point #ca #california

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bonewhiteglory · 2 months

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Today I saw… ✨it✨

#beafts #newts #aminals #videos #probably a baby california rough-skinned newt? i am far from an expert #edited to add: WHY IS THIS MARKED MATURE. IT’S A BABY NEWT FOR FUCK’S SAKE #i contacted tumblr support so fingers crossed

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mercworm · 10 months

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My submission for the amphibian pride parade 2023! I struggled a lot drawing a submission this year, but I’m really happy with the result!

Submissions from 2022 and 2021 below the cut!

#amphibian pride 2023 #me as a california newt!#pride #genderqueer #asexual #beck's art

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muddy-water-04 · 8 months

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-California Newt Eggs-

#newt #california newt #today on tumblr #eggs #nature #ethel cain #southern gothic #american gothic #midwest gothic

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chicago-herpetological-society · 1 year

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California Newts Get a Helping Hand on their Big Night

Humans haven't been the only species impacted by the storms that recently hit California. The heavy amounts of rainfall have resulted in an abundance of vernal pools and other temporary bodies of water, which has drawn out breeding California newts (Taricha torosa, 1st pic) and rough-skinned newts (Taricha granulosa, 2nd pic).

These newts often have to cross several roads to reach their breeding locations, which results in several casualties due to vehicle collisions. This is where volunteers with the Chileno Valley Newt Brigade have stepped in to help the newts safely reach their destination. Armed with reflective vests, bucket, and flashlights volunteers conduct surveys for newts every night during breeding season. They help transport living newts, dispose of deceased newts, and record their sightings using iNaturalist.

[Photo credits: California Herps (1st photo), Idaho Fish & Game (2nd photo)]

#newts #rough-skinned newt #california newt #california wildlife #herpetology

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valhikes · 8 months

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Russian Wilderness, Klamath National Forest, California

Day 2: Tagging the top of Etna Mountain and then stopping by Meeks Meadow Lake and Smith Lake (by trail that isn't) and finally Paynes Lake.

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piece-of-garbage-2 · 9 months

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name suggestions for this silly girl?

#rottmnt #rise of the tmnt #rise of the tmnt oc #rottmnt oc #shes so silly #btw her species is california newt

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bluebelly-sun-serpentine · 1 year

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A red-bellied newt (taricha torosa) and some domestic cattle (bos taurus) in this last winter's Briones hills. The latin terms torus (from which the newt gets its second name) and taurus (for the cow) are not etymologically linked, but since these folks live in such close company the coincidence struck me. This native newt is part of a struggling population. They come to breed in a muddy ancestral pond full of e.coli and other gut-colonizing creatures evacuated by big, placid cows. I like the cows themselves, and my eye is always drawn to the terraces they graze into the hills, but I love these little pebbled, slimy people too, and want them to do well. In other places they cross roads and paths to breed in streams and ponds, and many are killed by motorists. One nearby road closes for newt season, and I always wonder why that road can't just always be closed - it's a better place for everyone then; people go for longer walks, and other critters feel safer crossing the road too.

#newts #taricha torosa #bos taurus #briones #sonya7r4 #sonya7riv #digital photography #photography #flora #fauna #cows #baby cow #california

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rjzimmerman · 2 years

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Excerpt from this story from Discover Magazine:

American Pika

What do you get when you cross a rabbit with a hamster? The American pika. Pikas make their homes in the tiny crevices of the Rocky Mountains. You can see them in Rocky Mountain National Park, Grand Teton National Park and Yellowstone National Park, to name a few. Unfortunately, pikas are a candidate for the federal endangered species list because of habitat loss due to climate change.

Yellow-Bellied Marmot

Another Rocky Mountain resident, the yellow-bellied marmot can be seen lounging in the sun on rocks or roaming about the alpine meadows. The large rodents were dubbed “whistle pigs” by early settlers for the loud, scream-like whistles they make out of fear and excitement.

California Newt

The witches in Macbeth may have cast “eye of newt” into their cauldron, but this is one newt you don’t want to touch. The California newt, or orange-bellied newt, is an enchanting salamander that grows to between 2 and 3.5 inches long and ranges in color from red to brown and orange tones. They’re relatively common in the forests and grasslands around California’s Santa Monica Mountains. While beautiful to look at, these sticky newts are toxic to the touch — emitting the same poison as pufferfish.

Manatee

Sometimes referred to as sea cows, manatees enjoy taking their time and thrive in slow-moving waters. They can typically hold their breath for about five minutes while grazing for food and up to 20 minutes while resting. Their lungs, located next to their spine, help them maintain buoyancy. A relative of elephants, the manatee can live nearly 60 years and have no natural enemies. Their biggest threat is humans, due to polluted waters, habitat destruction and boating accidents. As a result, the animals were added to the endangered species list in 1967.

Elf Owl

Imagine walking among the fascinating cacti in Saguaro National Park, when out pops a feathery head complete with a pair of big yellow eyes and bushy, white eyebrows. You may have just stumbled upon the world’s tiniest owl — adult elf owls measure in at just under 6 inches long and have a wingspan of about 13 inches. In comparison, the great horned owl has a wingspan of over 4 feet.

#national parks #American pika #yellow-bellied marmot #California newt #manatee #elf owl

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cartoonscientist · 4 months

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#signs #hiking #amphibians #newts #california

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thatnostalgiccarp · 6 months

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Critter fact #24:

The Orange-bellied Newt, Taricha torosa, is endemic to California. Hence, it is also known as the California Newt.

#Orange-bellied Newt #Taricha torosa #California endemic #California Newt #Amphibian facts #critter facts

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dailycreatures · 8 months

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Orange belly newt

The orange belly newt, or California newt, can be seen in the western United States. They mostly hang out in areas near ponds and streams, since that’s where they breed. Like all newts, orange belly newts are amphibians. They’re actually pretty poisonous and will secrete neurotoxins if scared, but if you take caution when handling, and don’t eat them, then you should be fine.

fact sources: aquarium of pacific. org and wikipedia

image source: wikipedia

#creature 76 #orange belly newt #california newt #newt #creature post

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vintagegeekculture · 4 months

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RIP Tracy Tormé, Creator of the "Holodeck Malfunction Episode" and Sliders

Tracy Tormé’s most enduring legacy in popular culture is that, while a writer on TNG’s tempestuous first and second seasons, he created the entire concept of the Holodeck Malfunction Episode.

Yes, even people who suggest you skip TNG’s first couple seasons say that “The Big Goodbye” is one you don’t want to miss. And there was a very nice tribute to Tracy Torme in an episode of Picard, which had him as the author and creator of Dixon Hill… which he is, and deserves credit for this.

I suppose I should mention I had a personal encounter with Tracy Tormé at a convention. The main thing I remember was that he looked absolutely terrified when someone asked him about what happened with “The Royale,” far and away TNG’s worst episode except the clip show, about the crew getting trapped on a hotel they can’t leave from a badly written book. To his great credit, he took responsibility for the episode not working and did not pass on the problems to the production crew.

The most extraordinary thing about Tracy Torme is that he had a Forrest Gump like ability to appear in the background of scifi culture’s greatest moments.

Not only was he inside the TNG writers’ room in 1987-88, he was around during the production of Terminator with James Cameron. Tormé was the one who, hearing about the production of the film, squealed on it to Harlan Ellison, telling Ellison that it was based on his old Outer Limits episodes, with a visual based on his script for “Demon With a Glass Hand.” In other words, he was the Gavrilo Princip who got that entire conflict started, where two of the most proud personalities in scifi butted heads, James Cameron vs. Ellison. Cameron, to this day, insists that the film company gave Ellison money and a credit because it was easier to pay him off than to go through litigation (which rings true, frankly, for risk averse production companies), and to this day Cameron insists, with his absolutely expected big dick swagger, that Ellison is a “parasite” who received money for nothing, and if it had been up to him, he wouldn’t have given him a dime.

It’s also worth mentioning that Torme also created the TV series Sliders.

Has anyone else noticed that Sliders is an incredibly right wing show? Seriously, watch it again if you haven’t seen it in years. If you haven’t watched this show since the 90s and you were a kid and all that went over your head, it’s kind of amazing how Limbaugh/Newt Gingrich era right-wing Sliders actually was. It made 24 look like Doonesbury. The targets of Sliders were 90s New Right satire: health care systems, infuriating hippies, the nanny state disallowing the public smoking of cigars, California weirdness, the drug culture, the USSR. Torme’s right wing views were less John Millius-style “blood alone moves the wheel of history” stuff, but more like that of a slobby regular joe in the 90s, Dennis Leary’s character in Demolition Man for instance, who mostly just wants to smoke cigars, ogle girls, and eat hamburgers without getting scolded by his wife. He was less “Passion of the Christ” and more “Animal House.”

I am not saying this as a negative, but merely a description. Contrary to popular belief, right wingers driven by bizarre sexual pathology and weird grudges produce amazing art, as Millius and John Swartzwelder show. A lot of Steven Universe fans love to say things like “all good art is about empathy and kindness” and I reject that notion. Good art can also be about reflecting things in the human experience like fear, trauma, cruelty, and paranoia.

For that reason, it doesn’t surprise me that Tracy Torme’s best movie script was a horror film about a traumatic experience, Fire in the Sky. An ominous movie about a vanished ranch hand who was the victim of alien abduction, in the earned finale the film’s tension builds toward, our hero remembers the true cause of his missing time: an abduction by aliens, who’s motives are emotionless and incomprehensible, and who subject him to horrific vivisection that we see in excruciating detail. Travis Walton is treated not with sadism or cruelty, but with icy detachment, by alien superintellects that view him as no different than cattle, and are to him as we are to cattle. The most terrifying detail of the film is that the classic “gray alien” look turns out to be spacesuits, revealing a far more frightening appearance underneath.

#tracy torme #tng #sliders #terminator

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herpsandbirds · 5 months

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California Newts (Taricha torosa), (T) - female and (B) male in breeding form, family Salamandridae, Sonoma County, California, USA

Poisonous (very).

photographs by John P Clare

#nbewt #salamander #taricha #amphibian #salamandridae #herpetology #north america #animals #nature

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valhikes · 8 months

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Russian Wilderness

Klamath National Forest, California

My second day backpacking the Russian Wilderness started as a short plan, but couldn't stay that way. I added on a cross country hike to a little peak to see a hidden lake before starting. I added on a cross country hike to the biggest peak in the Wilderness after the hike.

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