Re: NANFA--Off Topic: Ambystoma tigrinum

Jay DeLong (thirdwind_at_att.net)
Thu, 05 Jul 2001 22:04:16 -0700

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>As far as use as bait, they are probably not used much. My experience with
>A. maculatum is that fish will shun them like the plague. I always figured
>it was because they taste bad or something. Anybody with have contrary
>experience?
>
>
>Ranger Bob

The northwestern salamander Ambystoma gracile will excrete a white liquid
from glands behind its head when alarmed. It must taste nasty to a
potential predator. Do other Ambystoma do that?

--
Jay DeLong
Olympia, WA
"If the biota, in the course of aeons, has built something we like but do 
not understand, then who but a fool would discard seemingly useless parts? 
To keep every cog and wheel is the first precaution of intelligent tinkering."
  -- Aldo Leopold (1953) 

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