Eastern red-spotted newt in the forest on Hawk Mountain - The Eastern newt aka red spotted newt / orange newt / Notophthalmus viridescens - walking on wet leaves in a rainy forest. It's bright orange color is indicative of red eft and aposematic coloration and a warning that it secrets a poison from its skin. Hawk Mountain is a mountain ridge, part of the Blue Mountain Ridge in the Appalachian Mountain chain, located in central-eastern Pennsylvania near Reading and Allentown.

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Location: Hawk Mountain Road, Kempton, PA, USA
Photo credit: © Don Mennig / Alamy / Afripics
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