{"id":557,"date":"2011-09-23T03:40:51","date_gmt":"2011-09-23T03:40:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/amongtheleaves.com\/?p=557"},"modified":"2023-11-04T15:21:16","modified_gmt":"2023-11-04T15:21:16","slug":"local-fauna","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amongtheleaves.com\/?p=557","title":{"rendered":"Local Fauna"},"content":{"rendered":"

Found this guy wandering around the job site not too long ago. He’s a Blotched Tiger Salamander (Ambystoma tigrinum melanostictum) and can grow to over a foot in length.<\/p>\n

Seeing this adult Tiger Salamander is actually fairly unusual, as they usually make their homes in burrows as deep as 2 feet below ground. Young Tiger Salamanders are purely aquatic, but adults are wide ranging dry-land dwelling amphibians. As one of the largest and hardiest of land dwelling salamanders, they are popular as pets, but illegal to sell in the United States.<\/p>\n

We let this guy go in the nearby field where he was found.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Found this guy wandering around the job site not too long ago. He’s a Blotched Tiger Salamander (Ambystoma tigrinum melanostictum) and can grow to over a foot in length. Seeing this adult Tiger Salamander is actually fairly unusual, as they usually make their homes in burrows as deep as 2 feet below ground. Young Tiger […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[71,15,14],"tags":[141,54,72],"class_list":["post-557","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fauna","category-lakesandponds","category-lifeaquatic","tag-fauna","tag-lakes-and-ponds","tag-the-life-aquatic"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/amongtheleaves.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/557","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/amongtheleaves.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/amongtheleaves.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amongtheleaves.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amongtheleaves.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=557"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/amongtheleaves.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/557\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3216,"href":"https:\/\/amongtheleaves.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/557\/revisions\/3216"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amongtheleaves.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=557"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amongtheleaves.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=557"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amongtheleaves.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=557"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}