{"id":14023,"date":"2014-03-30T23:09:02","date_gmt":"2014-03-31T04:09:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/?p=14023"},"modified":"2014-03-31T00:40:23","modified_gmt":"2014-03-31T05:40:23","slug":"yellow-spotted-salamanders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/?p=14023","title":{"rendered":"Yellow Spotted Salamanders"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/post-ss-portraits-600-best-960.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-14030\" title=\"post ss portraits 600 best 480\" src=\"http:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/post-ss-portraits-600-best-480.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"353\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/post-ss-portraits-600-best-480.jpg 480w, https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/post-ss-portraits-600-best-480-300x220.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><em><strong>Yellow Spotted Salamander (Ambystoma maculatum)<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Nighttime March rain\u00c2\u00a0affords\u00c2\u00a0the key\u00c2\u00a0impetus\u00c2\u00a0for yellow spotted salamanaders (<em>Ambystoma maculatum<\/em>) to venture from woodlands to wetlands for their annual mating aggregation known as a congress.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/post-ss-nighttime-001-960.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-14040\" title=\"post ss nighttime 001 480\" src=\"http:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/post-ss-nighttime-001-480.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"340\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/post-ss-nighttime-001-480.jpg 480w, https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/post-ss-nighttime-001-480-300x212.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><em><strong>Scooping Salamanders from Dark, Busy SouthCoast Roads<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Thursday evening brought torrential downpours with mild 50 degree temperature.\u00c2\u00a0 The Turtle Journal team piled into the all-wheel-drive vehicle and patrolled flooded SouthCoast streets, spending the night scooping up slithering salamanders from dark, wet and busy roadways.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/post-ss-weighing-200-28-grams-960.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-14036\" title=\"Sierra Exif JPEG\" src=\"http:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/post-ss-weighing-200-28-grams-480.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"616\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/post-ss-weighing-200-28-grams-480.jpg 480w, https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/post-ss-weighing-200-28-grams-480-233x300.jpg 233w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><em><strong>Weighing Yellow Spotted Salamander<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Before releasing a sampling of these salamanders, we gathered sciientific data and examined them thoroughly.\u00c2\u00a0 Specimens ranged from as light as 16 grams to as heavy as 28 grams.\u00c2\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/post-ss-processing-102-large-960.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-14032\" title=\"post ss processing 102 large 480\" src=\"http:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/post-ss-processing-102-large-480.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"311\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/post-ss-processing-102-large-480.jpg 480w, https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/post-ss-processing-102-large-480-300x194.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><em><strong>Measuring Yellow Spotted Salamanders<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The smallest salamander measured a little more than 15 centimeters from snout to tip of tail.\u00c2\u00a0 The largest specimen stretched nearly 18 centimeters.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><object width=\"480\" height=\"360\" classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/-Kgz2wp4ioA?version=3&amp;hl=en_US&amp;rel=0\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><embed width=\"480\" height=\"360\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/-Kgz2wp4ioA?version=3&amp;hl=en_US&amp;rel=0\" allowFullScreen=\"true\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" \/><\/object><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/youtu.be\/-Kgz2wp4ioA\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><em><strong>IF YOU HAVE AN iPAD &amp; CAN&#8217;T SEE VIDEO, CLICK HERE.<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><em><strong>Examining Yellow Spotted Salamander<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">We examine each salamander in detail.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/post-ss-frontal-001-960.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-14026\" title=\"post ss frontal 001 480\" src=\"http:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/post-ss-frontal-001-480.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"257\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/post-ss-frontal-001-480.jpg 480w, https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/post-ss-frontal-001-480-300x160.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><em><strong>Yellow Spotted Salamander (Ambystoma maculatum)<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">No matter weight or size, each salamander seems packed with energy and\u00c2\u00a0filled with determined resolution to reach congress.\u00c2\u00a0 My goodness, with a smile like the one pictured immediately above, Turtle Journal might even consider voting him into office.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yellow Spotted Salamander (Ambystoma maculatum) Nighttime March rain\u00c2\u00a0affords\u00c2\u00a0the key\u00c2\u00a0impetus\u00c2\u00a0for yellow spotted salamanaders (Ambystoma maculatum) to venture from woodlands to wetlands for their annual mating aggregation known as a congress. Scooping Salamanders from Dark, Busy SouthCoast Roads Thursday evening brought torrential downpours with mild 50 degree temperature.\u00c2\u00a0 The Turtle Journal team piled into the all-wheel-drive vehicle [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[402,826],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14023"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14023"}],"version-history":[{"count":26,"href":"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14023\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14062,"href":"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14023\/revisions\/14062"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14023"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14023"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14023"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}