Does a mud puppy bark?
When an ordinary puppy takes to the water he dog paddles with all his might to keep his head above the surface. However, a mud puppy has gills for taking his oxygen from the water and he remains under water all his life. such animals do not have voices like those of air breathing animals and even if they had they could not Use them. The mud puppy is a salamander and salamanders are amphibian animals. The word amphibian means a creature of land and water, and the amphibious frogs and toads spend part of their lives in the water and part on land. Frogs begin life as jellified eggs, afloat in a pond. They spend their kindergarten days in the water as fishy tadpoles and later develop lungs to cope with life in the air. Many salamanders follow the same life history but the mud puppy keeps his fishy gills throughout life and never leaves the water. However, like all amphibians, he has a remarkable breathing apparatus and breathing is related to the sound an animal makes with his voice. A fro
