Lumbar Herniated Disc Video. 1  Learn how a lumbar disc herniates and can cause lower back pain. 2  Sciatica is leg pain caused by a problem in the low back. 3  See how a disc degenerates and how it can cause pain and other symptoms.
Salamanders are nocturnal and come out from their hiding places during moist nights to hunt for prey. Most species eat large amounts of invertebrates such as worms, insects and snails. A few species, like spring and red salamanders, will even eat other salamanders. Salamanders are equally important as food for many other animals, such as raccoons, opossums, bears, mink, river otter, frogs and snakes. In some places they are the most abundant vertebrate animals in the forest.
Despite being fairly large and having an extremely broad range, the spotted salamander is actually pretty hard to, well, spot. They can reach 9 inches (23 centimeters) in length and are prevalent in mature deciduous forests from eastern Canada throughout the eastern and midwestern United States. But these secretive salamanders spend almost their entire lives hidden under rocks or logs or in the burrows of other forest animals. They will populate upland forests and mountainous regions, but are most common in moist, low-lying forests near floodplains.