Silvery Salamander Life Cycle

They can grow up to 17 cm.	Their greatest threat: reptiles, birds, & mammals.	There are no males.
The babies are larvae when they are born.	Silvery Salamander (Ambystona Platineum)	They are brownish-gray with small silvery spots.
To escape, most of them produce a sticky, distasteful, or poisonous skin secretion.	They live in Vermillion County in two shallow vernal ponds in a mesic oak-sugar maple-beech forest.	Their eggs are laid in early spring; they are deposited one by one in groups or long strings.