Cave salamander remained in same spot for 7 years

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A lazy cave salamander didn't move from the same spot for 7 years

Olm are salamanders that spend all their lives in pitch-black caves, and it turns out they don’t move very much – sometimes lurking in the same spot for years

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Cave salamander remained in same spot for 7 years

A rare type of cave-dwelling salamander known as the olm can live a very long life, typically in Europe, but now researchers say that one salamander didn't budge for 2,569 days.

“They are hanging around, doing almost nothing,” lead scientist Gergely Balázs told The New Scientist.

Balázs and his colleagues at Eötvös Loránd University in Hungary came across the amphibian inside a cave in Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Olms can go years without eating, they don't tend to enjoy socializing and other animals don't prey on them, according to The Independent.

The small, sedentary olms tend to move, according to the study, only when they need to find a mate -- which only happens roughly once every 12 years or so throughout their 100-year life span.

The researchers published their findings in the Journal of Zoology on Jan. 28.

 

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The small, sedentary olms tend to move, according to the study, only when they need to find a mate -- which only happens roughly once every 12 years or so throughout their 100-year life span.

Is there salamander viagra available?

 

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Article describing my career.

 

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I could handle only moving to seek a mate, but it would be more like 2 times a day.

 

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I feel less lazy now.