Condition
Injured
Animal
California Newt
Observation Date / Time
Collecting data for roadkill mitigation efforts: https://www.inaturalist.org/projects/pacific-newts-all-lexington-reserv…
This one slowly twitched a foot when I picked it up. :(
I'm counting it as dead because I highly doubt it's going to make it (spinal column showed no movement & goo coming out of the side; maybe all the way dead and just some last impulses firing). If it were a mammal in this condition I would've made it completely dead, but I moved it off into wet leaves in the slight hope that amphibian regenerative powers might give it a chance.
url: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/66504665
Observer
2991-sea-kangaroo
Location Description
Lexington Reservoir, California, USA