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seen a couple hundred tigers this season. some in ponds, and many crossing roads @ night.
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2 tham radix
1 Chicago Tham s. semifasciatus
2 elaphe vulpina
1 gray tiger salamander
4 Aphonopelma hentzi
1 G rosea
1 Haplo minax
1 Brachy angustum
1 Brachy sabulosum
1 Brachy vagans
1 Cent. hentzi scorp

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2 tham radix
1 Chicago Tham s. semifasciatus
2 elaphe vulpina
1 gray tiger salamander
4 Aphonopelma hentzi
1 G rosea
1 Haplo minax
1 Brachy angustum
1 Brachy sabulosum
1 Brachy vagans
1 Cent. hentzi scorp

Nice pic, roads are deathtraps for migrating amphibs though...
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A room of herps.
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>>Nice pic, roads are deathtraps for migrating amphibs though...
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>>A room of herps.
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No kidding. I even saw a passing truck crush a migrating tiger salamander right in front of my eyes. Too late to do anything. I had just stopped my car and couldn't get out fast enough to move it out of the way. Another bad "habit" that some salamanders have developed is to come out at night onto roadways after rains, not because they need the heat from the road surface, but because often small rain puddles form on road surfaces, and the salamanders just like to soak themselves in those puddles. The stationary salamander exposes itself to far greater danger than a migrating salamander crossing a road.

the road these salamanders cross is not heavily traveled. i just move them off the road. on a good night, you may see 40 or so, very few DORs.
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2 tham radix
1 Chicago Tham s. semifasciatus
2 elaphe vulpina
1 gray tiger salamander
4 Aphonopelma hentzi
1 G rosea
1 Haplo minax
1 Brachy angustum
1 Brachy sabulosum
1 Brachy vagans
1 Cent. hentzi scorp