Animal Study Matt

Chinese Giant SalamanderMatt Pieretti

Diet

• Chinese giant salamanders eat lots of fish, snails and worms.

• This is one ofits prey.

appearance

eyesight• Giant salamanders are

almost blind because their eyes are on opposite sides and they are very small.

sounds• A long time ago people

thought that giant salamanders could cry loudly, maybe because they look like a different salamander that does.

Now we know that it isn’t true.

Care and conservation

• Chinese giant salamanders are often killed and eaten by humans so they are endangered. They are carnivores or meat eating animals.

Life cycle

• A Chinese giant salamander can live to be up to 55 years old.

Life cycles

breeding• Chinese giant salamanders

only breed in August and September.

eggs• Males guard the eggs from

predators.

habitat

• Chinese giant salamanders live in water filled caves.

appearance

• Chinese giant salamanders don’t have eyelids.

• The giant salamanders body is slippery, the coating of slime protects them.

Interesting facts

• Chinese giant salamanders don’t speak, talk or vocalize.

• Chinese giant salamanders weigh up to 140 pounds.

Appearance

• Chinese giant salamanders are always in water.

• Chinese giant salamanders can be 5 to 20 feet long.

conservation

• Chinese giant salamanders are being killed by pollution and dams.

Life cycle

• Chinese giant salamanders are born under water.

• A female Chinese giant salamander at max lays 500 eggs.

extras

• Chinese giant salamanders skin is brown or gray, in very few cases it can be pink or yellow.

• The Chinese giant salamanders skin is wrinkly.

others

• Chinese giant salamanders look a lot like Japanese giant salamanders.

• Chinese giant salamanders live at mountain streams.

SOURCES

• www.arkive.org/• Squire, Chinese giant salamander the world’s

biggest amphibian, 2007.• http://www.earthsendangered.com/• http://www.thinkquest.org/• Encyclopedia of animals; 2006