It depends! There are some species that never leave the water (axolotls are one of these) and then some stay in the water for mating season from early spring through late summer, usually about 5 months. Some never really enter the water again after their juvenile stage.
Edit: salamanders are neat for a lot of reasons, but one of them is how often they seem to evolve into subspecies. For example, Crater Lake has a subspecies of rough-skinned newts called the Mazama newt.
The neat thing about them is that the rough-skinned has one of the deadliest neurotoxins (tetrodotoxin) and the only predator they have is garter snakes (they are in an evolutionary arms race, garters are immune to the poison). However, garter snakes can’t really fuck with Crater Lake because it’s so cold and the Mazama lost its neurotoxin over time.
The horrible thing is that some colonizers introduced fish and then crawfish to the lake 100 years ago and since they lost the neurotoxin the mazama newts are now endangered! Luckily there is an effort by local zoos and I think a school to keep some in captivity to breed and eventually reintroduce them.
Anyway, special interest info dump is over…for now
idk salamander lore approximately how long do they spend underwater
It depends! There are some species that never leave the water (axolotls are one of these) and then some stay in the water for mating season from early spring through late summer, usually about 5 months. Some never really enter the water again after their juvenile stage.
Edit: salamanders are neat for a lot of reasons, but one of them is how often they seem to evolve into subspecies. For example, Crater Lake has a subspecies of rough-skinned newts called the Mazama newt.
The neat thing about them is that the rough-skinned has one of the deadliest neurotoxins (tetrodotoxin) and the only predator they have is garter snakes (they are in an evolutionary arms race, garters are immune to the poison). However, garter snakes can’t really fuck with Crater Lake because it’s so cold and the Mazama lost its neurotoxin over time.
The horrible thing is that some colonizers introduced fish and then crawfish to the lake 100 years ago and since they lost the neurotoxin the mazama newts are now endangered! Luckily there is an effort by local zoos and I think a school to keep some in captivity to breed and eventually reintroduce them.
Anyway, special interest info dump is over…for now