{"id":216,"date":"2005-05-17T09:41:25","date_gmt":"2005-05-17T13:41:25","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=216"},"modified":"2008-12-03T21:40:28","modified_gmt":"2008-12-04T03:40:28","slug":"it-was-a-salamander-newt-not-a-gecko","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/evilmoose.me\/?p=216","title":{"rendered":"it was a salamander newt, not a gecko!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Red-spotted Newt, Eft Stage (Notophthalmus viridescens viridescens)  <\/em><\/p>\n<div class=\"dropshadow\" style=\"width: 410px; margin: auto; position: relative;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/evilmoose.smugmug.com\/photos\/22247615-S.jpg\" alt=\"Red-spotted Newt\" title=\"notophthalmus v. viridescens\"\/><\/div>\n<p>Most newts are aquatic, but some species, including the red-spotted newt, have a juvenile terrestrial stage (the &#8220;Eft&#8221; stage) where they hang out on land for a few years, before they transform into sensible adults and go back to the water.  The reason the red-spotted newt comes in pretty colours is to warn predators about the toxic mucus its skin produces (nice &#8211; isn&#8217;t that always the way).  And apparently &#8220;the efts are found on the forest floor after rains&#8221;, which would explain why we kept nearly walking on them on our way down.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Red-spotted Newt, Eft Stage (Notophthalmus viridescens viridescens) Most newts are aquatic, but some species, including the red-spotted newt, have a juvenile terrestrial stage (the &#8220;Eft&#8221; stage) where they hang out on land for a few years, before they transform into sensible adults and go back to the water. The reason the red-spotted newt comes in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advgb_blocks_editor_width":"","advgb_blocks_columns_visual_guide":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[173,538,537],"class_list":["post-216","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-gecko","tag-red-spotted-newt","tag-salamander-newt"],"author_meta":{"display_name":"megan","author_link":"https:\/\/evilmoose.me\/?author=1"},"featured_img":null,"coauthors":[],"tax_additional":{"categories":{"linked":["<a href=\"https:\/\/evilmoose.me\/?cat=1\" class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">general<\/a>"],"unlinked":["<span class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">general<\/span>"]},"tags":{"linked":["<a href=\"https:\/\/evilmoose.me\/?cat=1\" class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">gecko<\/a>","<a href=\"https:\/\/evilmoose.me\/?cat=1\" class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">red-spotted newt<\/a>","<a href=\"https:\/\/evilmoose.me\/?cat=1\" class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">salamander newt<\/a>"],"unlinked":["<span class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">gecko<\/span>","<span class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">red-spotted newt<\/span>","<span class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">salamander newt<\/span>"]}},"comment_count":"1","relative_dates":{"created":"Posted 21 years ago","modified":"Updated 17 years ago"},"absolute_dates":{"created":"Posted on 17.5.2005","modified":"Updated on 3.12.2008"},"absolute_dates_time":{"created":"Posted on 17.5.2005 9:41 am","modified":"Updated on 3.12.2008 9:40 pm"},"featured_img_caption":"","series_order":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/evilmoose.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/evilmoose.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/evilmoose.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/evilmoose.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/evilmoose.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=216"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/evilmoose.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1305,"href":"https:\/\/evilmoose.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216\/revisions\/1305"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/evilmoose.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/evilmoose.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/evilmoose.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}