Threats
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الإنجليزية
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المقدمة من EOL authors
Deeply wrinkled with a dappled, muddy hue, the skin of the eastern hellbender—the giant Appalachian salamander—also serves as its lungs. This “water-breather” absorbs oxygen through its skin from the cool, fast-flowing mountain streams in which it lives. As a result the hellbender is extremely sensitive to its environment, be it the temperature of its water, pollutants, oxygen content or acidity...
