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Fire Salamander / Rubber Jewel of European Forests

I’m not a fan of pathos. I don’t indulge in lyrical praise of beauty. From my wife Petra I’ve gradually picked up the habit of mischievously talking to animals, but lofty phrases like “Mother Nature is a mighty sorceress” definitely won’t come out of my cynical mouth. Still, there are moments when even I have to stop for a second and admit: “Wow, this is really beautiful.” 🫠 It happens, for example, every time I meet a fire salamander in the forest. An ordinary salamander. Well, ordinary… That shiny rubbery little dragon with yellow spots is many things, but ordinary is not one of them. It almost looks as if it doesn’t belong in our Central European landscape at all. Salamanders have accompanied me on my wanderings in nature since early childhood, yet they still haven’t become ordinary to me 🦎 The fire salamander lives in sloping, deciduous, shady forests. It spends most of its life hidden there—sheltering under stones, in decaying wood, or deep layers of leaf litter. It is mainly active during rain and at night, when it comes out to the surface and slowly searches the forest floor in its typically plodding way. It feeds on small invertebrates such as earthworms, slugs, spiders, and other little critters. In early spring, females move toward springs and clear streams, where they release live larvae into the pools. So if you ever struggle to remember why it’s important to protect old forests with dead wood and keep water sources in good condition, you’ve just discovered a good reason 👌 The strikingly colored salamanders look fantastic in photographs, but video is a different story. These lazy amphibians usually don’t do much at all. I hope they’ll forgive me for revealing this in public, but they basically just sit there staring most of the time. Of course, for dynamic BBC-style shots you can use a salamander in a terrarium, light it nicely, and offer it something to eat. But I enjoy filming “in situ,” in the natural environment. That’s why it took quite a while, bit by bit, to gather a pile of somewhat more dynamic footage. And you know what? I’d like to invite you to watch it right now 🥳 ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Want to buy me an ice cream? 🍦 I have always created videos for you on my own and at my own expense. Bringing today’s post to life took a total of 23 hours of work in the field and at the computer. If you’d like to support my work, you can donate to my PayPal or bank account: ✅ https://paypal.me/lukaspichvideo ✅ CZ24 2010 0000 0023 0078 8150 Thank you! 🙏 ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ✿ Species Fire salamander (Salamandra salamandra) ✿ Location and date Czechia | 2018–2022 ✿ Equipment Panasonic GH5 Panasonic GH6 Z Cam E2 Gopro 6 Sigma 105 Olympus 12-100 Laowa 24 Probe Zoom F3 Sennheiser MKE 600 ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ▶ YouTube (English)    / @lukaspichvideo   ▶ YouTube (Czech)    / @lukaspichkameraman   ▶ Facebook   / lukaspichvideo   ▶ Instagram   / pichlukas   ▶ Stock footage https://www.pond5.com/artist/lukaspich ▶ E-mail pichlukas@email.cz ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Fire salamander | Salamandra salamandra | Mlok skvrnitý | Feuersalamander | Salamandre tachetée | salamandra común | salamandra pezzata | О́гненная салама́ндра #europeanwildlife #firesalamander #salamandrasalamandra