Do Newts & Salamanders Make Good Pets: 5 Points to Consider

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Hi, Frank Indiviglio here. Iā€™m a herpetologist and book author, recently retired from a career spent at several zoos, aquariums, and museums, including over20 [FONT=&quot][/FONT]
Despite my very wide interests (my career with animals has, quite literally, spanned ants to elephants!), Iā€™ve always been partial to newts and salamanders. I focused on them from my earliest days working for the Bronx Zoo, and had the good fortune to author two books on their care and breeding. As pets and zoo specimens, they range from nearly impossible to keep to being among the longest lived of all captive herps (to age 50+, for the Fire and Japanese Giant Salamanders). The following points, drawn from a lifetime of working with these wonderful creatures in zoos, the field, and at home, are useful to consider before embarking on your amphibian-keeping venture. [FONT=&quot]R[/FONT]ead the rest of this article here Do Newts & Salamanders Make Good Pets? Five Points to Consider
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Best Regards, Frank
 

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