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When faced with a relative 10 story tall threat they don't tuck tail and run, rather pretend to be invisible and if that doesn't work they just get fiesty.
Pretty neat, this observation would be a tiger salamander's farthest north record on iNat. Edit: this would be the current farthest north record for either A. tigrinum or A. mavortium. I know nothing to contribute on ID--the two species look similar to my eye--but I guess location is your best clue?
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Pretty neat, this observation would be a tiger salamander's farthest north record on iNat. Edit: this would be the current farthest north record for either A. tigrinum or A. mavortium. I know nothing to contribute on ID--the two species look similar to my eye--but I guess location is your best clue?
Based on range, I suspect this is http://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/Ambystoma_mavortium, which was split off from A. tigirnum in the 90s (see comments on AmphibiaWeb). I don't know enough about tiger salamanders to say for sure, though.
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