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Unken Reflex or Posture: A defensive or anti-predatory posture characterized by arching of the salamander’s back, elevated and arched head and tail which displays the animal’s [ventral] surface - often revealing [aposematic coloration] that is normally concealed. To a predator, this sends the message to ‘beware’.