Photos: Rough Skinned Newt

Rough Skinned Newt says, "Why'd the newt cross the road?" ... "What'daya gonna do, bite me?!" Because they're so poisonous their only enemies are cars and garter snakes. The latter has, to misquote farmboy, "spent several years building up an immunity to newts." I love this snipit from a Seattle Times article:

Every known mammal spits them out instantly -- except men in bars who have been drinking heavily. A 29-year-old from Oregon went into a bar July 9, 1979, and, on a bet, swallowed a rough-skinned newt. He was dead before the day was out.