C chris Guest Apr 21, 2001 #1 Does anybody know what the maximum age that a Smooth newt can live to,in well looked after captive conditions & in the wild? Male or female? Chris
Does anybody know what the maximum age that a Smooth newt can live to,in well looked after captive conditions & in the wild? Male or female? Chris
N nimbus2 Guest Apr 21, 2001 #2 There's a record of a T. vulgaris living in captivity for 18 years at http://www.halcyon.com/slavens/lsala.html and they can probably live for longer. As for life-spans in the wild, I don't know, but 10-20 years wouldn't at all surprise me.
There's a record of a T. vulgaris living in captivity for 18 years at http://www.halcyon.com/slavens/lsala.html and they can probably live for longer. As for life-spans in the wild, I don't know, but 10-20 years wouldn't at all surprise me.
J john Guest Apr 22, 2001 #3 From page 53 of Beebee, Trevor and Griffiths, Richard (2000) "Amphibians and Reptiles" - Harper Collins Newt Naturalist series: "Adult smooth newts suffer about 50% mortality per year and not many live to be older than six or seven." I would think that they could live a lot longer in captivity though, as Nimbus2 says.
From page 53 of Beebee, Trevor and Griffiths, Richard (2000) "Amphibians and Reptiles" - Harper Collins Newt Naturalist series: "Adult smooth newts suffer about 50% mortality per year and not many live to be older than six or seven." I would think that they could live a lot longer in captivity though, as Nimbus2 says.