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Fedi.Garden 🌱

Flipping.rocks is a Hometown Mastodon server for people who appreciate arthropods, amphibians, reptiles, fungi etc. If you want a general Fediverse home for chatting with friends and posting about other interests, that’s okay too.

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Hometown hosted on flipping.rocksflipping.rocksA cozy online home for arthropod enthusiasts, fungi fans, herpers, and other lovers of weird little creatures.
#FeaturedServer#Arthropods#Amphibians
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Lukas VFN 🇪🇺

Rare #frog rediscovered after 130 years phys.org/news/2025-03-rare-fro

Lost for more than a century: the rediscovery of Alsodes vittatus (Anura, Alsodidae), one of the rarest and most elusive #amphibians from #Chile zookeys.pensoft.net/article/13

"This is an important milestone for South American #herpetology... Most of the other Alsodes species are either threatened with #extinction or we don't know enough about them to assess their status"

photo of a pale frog on a rock in clear shallow water
#Frogs#Animals#Conservation
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GraadYeah

🦎 Amphibians Tours with Graad! 🐸
Human built roads. Nature is okay with that but want to use them too. The toad migration has begun! :ecoanarchism_heart:
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'A little help from my friends' 🎶
🦎 I saved two 🦎 from a fast electric bike, a fatbike and a dog
'I am so emotional bby' 🥹🎵
One 🐸 and for one 🦎 was it too late 😭 'Bright eyes....' ♪

When the average temperature over a day is 8 to 10 °C and this lasts for about 3 days, the male toads wake up. They are smaller, so they warm up faster. For the females it is important that this temperature lasts for about a week. The humidity also affects the
toad migration, they prefer to go out when it is humid, because their skin
is sensitive to drying out.

Most traffic casualties occur during the great migration from about mid-February to the end of March. 🚲🏍️🛵🛹🛴🦼🚗

This can involve
thousands of animals per night! 🌚
#nature #toadmigration #paddentrek #amphibians #animalliberation

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Zumbador

I went to clean the filter of my garden pond this morning, and found it already occupied! I am so pleased to see a (endangered) leopard toad enjoying the pond. It's been so hot and dry around here, it must be a relief to it to find a sheltered watery spot.

A bit later I saw it swimming in a deeper part of the pond. Makes me so happy.

A leopard toad sitting in a small ceramic container filled with filter floss. Water flows from a pipe on the right of the picture. The toad is pale greenish brown with a pattern of brick red blots that forma leopard-like pattern. It's eyes look relaxed and contented.
#Toads#Amphibians#UrbanGarden
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Lukas VFN 🇪🇺

500,000 Taxa on iNaturalist! inaturalist.org/blog/103155-50

"that’s 23% of all known species on Earth... #Birds stand out: nearly all species have been observed on #iNaturalist. 349 species (2%) are yet to be recorded... For #reptiles, #amphibians, & #mammals there are about 10x as many unobserved... Like birds, most unobserved species only remain in tropical regions. This is not the case for #fish, #plants, #invertebrates, & #fungi where there are still many left to observe in all parts of the globe"

graphics showing percentages of observed and unobserved species in various groups of life in the iNaturalist database
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Sunguramy :nb_lily:

#Karstmas day 6!

Today we celebrate the Tennessee Cave Salamander, Gyrinophilus palleucus. This is actually the state amphibian for Tennessee! It is a listed species, NatureServe G2 (Imperiled), IUCN B1ab(iii)(Near Threatened).

Back on FB, whenever I'd post photos of one, I'd get folk saying, "OMG an axolotl! How cute!". Nope, wrong country entirely. But similarly, G. palleucus do not typically undergo metamorphosis and they do reach sexual maturity in this larval phase. The fancy term is "paedomorphic", in case you are wondering.

And yes this is a FB link but it is direct to the video, you won't need to log in to see it; I can't find it elsewhere. It is a 3.5 minute long spotlight on the Tn Cave Sal that the TWRA filmed on a survey trip the other year. I'm in it. Look for purple! (If you are visually claustrophobic, may not want to watch, just listen) facebook.com/tnwildlife/videos

Remember to follow me or the #Karstmas for more fun cave info this month!

#cave #caves #caving #speleology #biology #karst #geology #ecology #nature #water #underground #ecosystems #herp #herps #herptology #salamander #amphibians

PS I promise I have more vertical and technical stuff to post in the future too!

A pinkish tinged salamander still in the water and with gills, curled towards the camera, facing it. It's tail trails off the right edge. Their eyes are small and recessed, with lots of tiny dots around eyes and face (sensory). The angle is low to the water, which is clear, and has pebbles at the bottom of the shallow pool.
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