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Juvenile Great Crested with Externals

GROWMEZ

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My brother is an ecologist and does Great Crested Newt surveys all over the UK. He sent me this photo of a juvi with external gills that was in one of his bottle traps the other day. He's never found one with externals before
 

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sean

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nice, there is a country park near my home, and there are hundreds of great crested newt larva with gills there they get quit large. i went there once and someone thought they were axolotls. lol
 
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