Great Crested Newt Documentary

[@leah_bouzgarrou]

i just spotted a young one near my frog pond in my garden! i was so fascinated by it. i have honestly never seen one before in all my 24 years. what a joy it was to stumble across one!

[@manoftheworld1000]

And that's really a Great Crested Newt? - If so, I really envy you/LOL!

[@PaIaeoCIive1684]

Yes, lovely and colourful though the smaller varieties (palmate and common) are, encountering a great crested newt is more memorable. I've seen them in the wild 3 times in my 50+ years of nature watching. First ones 9around 4)were in a quarry pond near Dorking, including 3 'black dragon' crested males. Last year I found 2 juveniles under logs in Bushy Park, each the size of a common newt. Still haven't located their breeding pond which is nearby. Yes, I did briefly handle them without a licence. Nothing happened - I wasn't cuffed by the Police!

[@manoftheworld1000]

They are so incredibly cute! But my favourite newt is the alpine newt. I always had them in my garden, year after year. And I could watch them 'raise' their babies!

[@andrewyoung749]

id love alpine newts, i know they are invasive-assume you are uk based, but they are stunning. saw a load of ponds utterly crammed with them in the forests around zurich, couldnt move for them.

[@luboskalina2813]

Luxus lokalita-Triturus cristatus! Super dokument.

[@user-yr5qy9uc6h]

I have their larvae I my pond, but there's more disappearing each day, so I put one in a tank to care for it and then let it go, I hope it'll have a better chance of survival. Super interesting to watch!

[@ctophercs]

Great video thank you for sharing I enjoyed watching.

[@Danny-outside]

When I was a kid I went to my local pond and got a few newts for my tank I didn't know I had all three newt Species. when I realised I put them all back next spring.

[@danielmassey2362]

We have have in our garden pond no idea how they got there but they are there

[@PaIaeoCIive1684]

Just curious as to why this large warty beastie isn't called a salamander rather than a newt? What distinguishes one from the other?

[@djwildlifeclips9779]

One of the greatest moments of skimming a pond is when you end up catching a big water beetle (e.g., Hydrophilous piceus), or a large predaceous diving beetle (e.g., Dytiscus dimidiatus, or Cybister lateralimarginalis)! Ponds are such amazing ecosystems and critical for the conservation of endangered amphibians, snakes (e.g., Natrix natrix) and freshwater insects.

[@dragom2009]

I love them

[@kimcason8764]

I used to catch them in Ponds in Essex 1960's. I kept and Breed some in an Old Bath. Once young were big enough. I would then even return many to the Pond. Until the Farmer and or Council filled the Pond in..! People were moaning about Mossie's or Gnats..! Also a Person who had a Pond Complained to my Dad. "Your Kids Newts are getting into my Pond and Hurting my Gold Fish..!" So he Killed them..! Thats why they are Rare..! Kids fishing with a Net, Ponds Filled and Goldfish owners Killing them. Ergo. Almost Vanished. Sad..!! 😢

[@yoyowu3072]

does it swim?

[@BigAl2-u7e]

what do you think

[@kakalijana416]

l think yes my friend

[@kakalijana416]

l think yes .from upasika

[@DavidJHarrisonEssex]

No! It just plays the Bagpipes!

[@PaIaeoCIive1684]

If it can be arsed, and swishes its tail, yes!

[@sakku1040]

I used to live in a place where we had pond with these now the pond is dried up😭

[@mickbrown3357]

What do they eat?

[@BigAl2-u7e]

your soul and the suffering of children just kidding crested newts diet consists primarily of invertebrates including insects, worms, water snails, larvae and sometimes tadpoles.

[@DavidJHarrisonEssex]

Big Macs. 😀

[@lamecasuelas2]

Its a nano spinosaurus

[@FilthyCasual272]

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