California newt
The California newt is a small amphibian with a warty grey back and a bright orange-yellow belly. It lives only in California, in the western United States. Its skin contains a powerful poison, so it is a good example of an animal you should look at but never handle.1

No anndirte ngal
- Warty, slate-grey skin on the back1
- Bright orange-yellow skin on the underside1
- Orange skin around the bottom of the eye (the rough-skinned newt has grey there)1
- Eyes that stick out beyond the edge of the jaw when seen from above, giving the head a bullet-like shape1
- Adults are about 13 to 20 cm long1
Ina heewi waylondireede e: The rough-skinned newt looks very similar and is often hard to tell apart in the field. The California newt has orange skin around the bottom of the eye and eyes that stick out past the jaw, while the rough-skinned newt has grey skin there and eyes that do not stick out. The red-bellied newt has dark irises instead of yellow, more red underneath, and a dark band across the vent.1
Doole tooke ɓanndu
Nguru mum ina jogii tooke. Ina bonna so meemaama, lakkaama walla ñaamaama.
Hol ko tooke ɓanndu mum waɗata?
This animal is poisonous, not venomous, so it does not bite or sting. Its skin glands release tetrodotoxin, a neurotoxin (a poison that attacks the nerves). It is hundreds of times more toxic than cyanide and is the same toxin found in pufferfish and harlequin frogs. It is strong enough to kill most vertebrates, including humans.1
Hol no bone mum heewiri e yimɓe?
Bone e yimɓe: Bone sanneIna waawi warde neɗɗo mo safraaka.The toxin is strong enough to kill people. Because of their toxin, California newts have very few natural predators.1
Hol ko ngal waɗata so ina hula?
When threatened, it performs the unken reflex: it stretches out, arches its body, and lifts its head and tail into the air to show its bright belly. It can also produce a foamy substance when exposed to high temperatures.1
So neɗɗo meemii ngal walla ñaamii ngal
- So neɗɗo meemii gooto: loot juuɗe ɗee no moƴƴiri, wota a meem gite walla hunduko. So cukalel walla kullal galle lakkii walla ñaamii gooto: noddu centre antipoison walla nimero urgence.
Adii fof noddu nimero urgence (112, 000, 911). Ɗum ko anndinal ballal adiingal, wonaa saaraangal doktoor. Ko adii e ballal adiingal
Reen hoore maa
- Wota a meem, wota a nanngu, wota a ñiŋŋu kullal ladde haa abada, hay so ngal ina famɗi, hay so ina nanndi e ɗaaniingal walla maayngal.
- Accu ngal nokku. So a fotti e ngal, deƴƴu, ruttu ɓaawo seeɗa seeɗa, accu ngal yaha laawol mum.
- So a meemii ngal walla a ñaamii ngal: wota a moomtu gite maa walla hunduko maa, loot juuɗe maa, heɓ ballal cafrol.
Ngal faalaaka gaañde ma. Tooke mum woni tan ngam wota huunde ñaam ngal. Ɓeydu anndude no reentortoo
Hol to e aduna?
Hol no mawniri?
Hol no juutiri?
juutde no kaaɗe mahirɗe 6 ɗaɓɓondiraaɗeHol no California newt mawniri, so fooɗondiraama e AN?
Limgal tan e navigatoor maa. Alaa ko danndetee walla ko neldetee.
Hol no yaawiri?
Humpito
Because snakes evolved resistance, newts have evolved to make far more toxin than any other predator could need, an evolutionary arms race.1
The foam the newt produces forms a protective layer that helps it keep moisture and shields it from burns during wildfires.1
Researchers believe bacteria make the tetrodotoxin, and the newts acquire it by eating those bacteria.1
Garter snakes are the most common predator, and some have developed resistance to the newt's toxin.1
Adults usually return to the same pool where they hatched to breed.1
Feññinoowo fenaande
Fenaande: Newts do not make any sounds.
Goonga: California newts make clicks, squeaks and whistles. Clicks are the most common, squeaks are used in defence, and whistles seem to be linked to recognising sex and to social rank.1
Ngam ganduɓe tooke
- Innde ganndal
- Taricha torosa
- Fedde
- Ñaari tooke, ñaari e newts
- Ɓesngu
- Salamandridae2
- Ordre
- Caudata
- Leyɗe mawɗe
- Amerik Rewo
- Ɓiɓɓe tokooso
- Females lay egg masses of between 7 and 30 eggs, attached to plant roots or rocks in small, slow-moving pools. The larvae hatch in early to midsummer, depending on water temperature.1
- Hol no ngal woniri e ladde
- California Special Concern species (DFG-CSC)1
- Bone e yimɓe
- 4 / 5: Bone sanne3
Ɗo humpito iwri
- California newt (Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0))
- Taricha torosa (iNaturalist): inɗe e ceergal.
- Venom Wiki: tolno bone, mawnude heewnde e miijo yaawde ko amen. Yiy no men keɓirta ɗum: No men tolnirta bone.
Kala humpito e ngoo hello ina jogii limoore hollirnde iwdi mum. So men juumii, yaafo, men ko yiɗɓe kulle, wonaa jaaynde ganndal. Wiy men e [email protected], men feewnita.
Tooke e nguru mum

