Eastern Newt Courtship (mating behavior)

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22 - March, 2017 - This video is of Notophthalmus viridescens (Eastern Newt) in amplexus and performing a courtship behavior. The male clamps his rear limbs around the female by her front limbs or slightly forward (around her neck). The male will then use his tail to fan pheromones towards the females nostrils. The male then performs a courtship dance in front of the female. Not shown here but the male would eventually release a sperm packet for the female to pick up with her cloaca.

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@liamcolotti6824 3 года назад

I just found two of my newts doing this today!

@courtneythefrogologist 3 года назад

Sweet! Did they lay any eggs? These never did.

@wawakong 3 года назад

R those eggs theirs?or from different. Species?

@courtneythefrogologist 3 года назад

They aren't the newt eggs. When Eastern newts lay eggs, they lay one at a time and usually wrap them in a leaf or some other similar material in the water. If I remember correctly, these were spotted salamander eggs. There is a possibility that they were wood frogs eggs. I am 99% sure that it was the spotted salamanders and newts that we collected at the same time though that year. Eggs are very hard to tell apart.

@ctophercs 5 лет назад

Update please?

@courtneythefrogologist 5 лет назад

They kept doing the dance but unfortunately they never laid eggs. Thanks for asking.

@wawakong 3 года назад

@@courtneythefrogologist so what are the species of those eggs in the tank ?

@courtneythefrogologist 3 года назад

@@wawakong If I remember correctly, these were spotted salamander eggs. There is a possibility that they were wood frogs eggs. I am 99% sure that it was the spotted salamanders and newts that we collected at the same time though that year. Eggs are very hard to tell apart.