Interesting P. Cinereus Behavior

[john]

Last night I noticed one of my P. Cinereus sitting out on the end of pine branch in the tank. This is a rather common and well documented behavior in the wild and serves as a means to capture flying insects. I had put this branch in there just for the purpose of trying to induce this behavior. I have some pics if anyone is interested in seeing them. Kinda makes me want to get a winged drosophila culture to see if i can observe them feeding in this manner too!

 

[russ]

I have a single adult in a large terrarium with a couple of chorus frogs. It does the same thing, perches on a high spot (piece of bark). I just assumed it was waiting to ambush food.

 

[ingo]

Hi John,

yes, I would like to see the pictures!
A friend of mine does also keep Pl. cinereus, I´ll ask her, if she observed this behaviour too...

 

[jennifer]

John W., it would be great if you would post the pictures here on the forum.

 

[john]

Very well! I will upload them tonight. Too bad i don't have a USB cable here at work, i just happen to have my camera in the car...

 

[john]

As promised! The height of this branch is about 1.5X the snout-tail tip length of this one. This specimen is about 83mm in total length.

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(Message edited by mike_g on May 28, 2005)

 

[TJ]

I came across this post a while back, but this week I noticed a male Hemidactylium at work doing the same thing. The lights are on a reverse cycle, so they are active during the daytime. I ran to get a camera but it was nowhere to be found when I returned (even though it didn't flinch when I walked by the first time).

-Tim

 

[sam]

Ive seen this in my Plethodon cinereus, it was quite nice to see.

 

[kj1]

Great pic s as usual sam
Nice behaviour this salamander has

 

[Slimy2]

Hi

Looks like they are doing well Sam.