{"id":5950,"date":"2010-04-16T20:59:06","date_gmt":"2010-04-17T01:59:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/?p=5950"},"modified":"2010-04-16T21:10:40","modified_gmt":"2010-04-17T02:10:40","slug":"spotted-salamander-eggs-mature-in-abandoned-southcoast-cranberry-bog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/?p=5950","title":{"rendered":"Spotted Salamander Eggs Mature in Abandoned SouthCoast Cranberry Bog"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Maturing Spotted Salamander Egg Sacs<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Turtle Journal returned to\u00c2\u00a0an abandoned SouthCoast cranberry bog today to check on spotted salamander egg sacs that were deposited and fertilized\u00c2\u00a0during the torrential rains of late March.\u00c2\u00a0 See \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Slithering Salamanders, Turtleman! Why Did the Spotted Salamander Cross the Road?\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0and Portrait of a Spotted Salamander<\/a>.\u00c2\u00a0 The water level has dropped sufficiently to expose many of the sacs in suspended branches.<\/p>\n

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Spotted Salamander\u00c2\u00a0in Late March Mating Aggregation<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

The (yellow) spotted salamander pictured above was discovered by the Turtle Journal team in a mating aggregation during a nighttime\u00c2\u00a0storm in late March.<\/p>\n

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Close Up of Spotted Salamander Eggs Shortly after Deposition<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

These mating aggregations became filled with\u00c2\u00a0floating, slightly submerged,\u00c2\u00a0jello-like sacs the size of bulging Italian egg plants, each of which might contain a hundred or more individual eggs.\u00c2\u00a0 The photograph above was taken in the dark of night, which accounts for its lack of sharpness, but illustrates what individual eggs resemble shortly after deposition.<\/p>\n

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Spotted Salamander Egg Sac Nearly Three Weeks Later<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Now, we are nearly three weeks after\u00c2\u00a0spring rains and the mating aggregation.\u00c2\u00a0 The egg sacs are maturing as are the eggs within them.<\/p>\n

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Close Up of Maturing Spotted Salamander Eggs<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

This close-up photograph taken today, April 17th, shows the changes that have occurred with the eggs since deposition and fertilization in late March.<\/p>\n

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Spotted Salamander from March Mating Aggregation<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Perhaps, with a little luck, we’ll soon see the next generation of spotted salamanders, some of which may become like this splendid specimen we encountered in the dark, spring rains of late March.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Maturing Spotted Salamander Egg Sacs Turtle Journal returned to\u00c2\u00a0an abandoned SouthCoast cranberry bog today to check on spotted salamander egg sacs that were deposited and fertilized\u00c2\u00a0during the torrential rains of late March.\u00c2\u00a0 See \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Slithering Salamanders, Turtleman! Why Did the Spotted Salamander Cross the Road?\u00e2\u20ac\u009d\u00c2\u00a0and Portrait of a Spotted Salamander.\u00c2\u00a0 The water level has dropped sufficiently […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[826],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5950"}],"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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5950"}],"version-history":[{"count":19,"href":"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5950\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5980,"href":"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5950\/revisions\/5980"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5950"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5950"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5950"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}