Amphibian Pictures

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The Spotted Salamander feeds mostly on earthworms and slugs, but they will eat almost any insect they can get. They like to live under the leaves and soil to keep cool and moist and under logs. They lay their eggs near ponds and pools of water in the forest.

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A Couch's spadefoot toad belts out its unique mating call near a pond in St. David, Ariz., Monday, July 6, 1998. Couch's spadefoot toads spend 10 months underground before hearing the drumming of rain on the desert floor during the summer monsoon. Then they rise en masse to mate in washes and pools of water, their songs echoing in the night.(AP Photo/Tucson Citizen, Gary Gaynor)

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This photo shows a Siskiyou Mountain salamander. Two rare salamanders, including this Siskiyou Mountain salamander, that live in old growth forests along the Klamath River don't need Endangered Species Act protection because existing state and federal protections are adequate to maintain their habitat, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service said Tuesday April 25, 2006. (AP Photo/Center for Biological Diversity, File)

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The salamander typically characterized by slender bodies, short legs, and long tails. They have four front toes and their hind legs have five toes. They lay eggs in the water.

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This is a Red-Spotted Newt found in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park, Tennessee, United States of America. These are the most numerous newts in North America.

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This is a Madagascar Day Gecko (Phelsuma madagascariensis) taken at Kona Coast, Hawaii, USA. The Madagascar Day Gecko is not a native species to Hawaii. They live among rainforests and dwell in trees. The Madagascar Day Gecko feeds on insects and nectar. They often make good pets but keep the males apart.

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The green tree frog makes a nice pet and can be found from Florida to northeast Texas in the U.S. They will eat crickets, moths, flies and many types of worms.

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An endangered Green Poison Dart frog, Dendrobates auratus, rests on a leaf at the INBIO Park in Heredia, Costa Rica, Wednesday, May 28, 2008.

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This is an Upland Chorus frog, known to scientists as Pseudacris feriarium. This is the kind of frog Emily M. Lemmon thought she was collecting in Louisiana in 2001. It turned out that the chorus frogs in Louisiana, Arkansas, east Texas and Oklahoma and west Mississippi were different from this or any of the other 14 chorus frog species known at the time.

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Carpenter frogs have 4 stripes that run the length of their bodies which helps hide them from predators. They are found in marshes and bogs where moss grows. The breeding call of this frog sounds like a carpenter hitting a nail with a steel hammer and is usually heard from March to August.

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