Saving the California Tiger Salamander

Why did the salamander cross the road?

To get to it’s habitat on the other side.

Tiger Salamander, Copyright Gerald and Buff Corsi

Gerald and Buff Corsi © 1999 California Academy of Sciences,Manzanita Image Project


Environmentalists in California help endangered Tiger Salamanders cross the road that divides their habitat by catching them, picking them up, and carrying them across the street. Why not lay pipes under the roads for the salamanders to cross thru? and then induce them to enter the channels by something that smells good or tastes good? The same for turtles, and other things that go ‘squish’ under cars in the night.

 

Tiger Salamander, Copyright David Rosen

Photo: © David Rosen/Wildside Photography