Lab Report: Food Behaviourism in Japanese Red Belly Newts
Abstract
The current experiment sought to determine the food of choice by Japanese Red Belly Newts. Fifteen Japanese Red Belly Newts were introduced into three sets of tanks. Food was introduced into the tanks in the first tank (control group) was given blood warms while in the other two tanks, beef hearts, blood worms, and crickets were introduced. We found out that salamanders become very active, aggressive, and territorial when it came to securing food for themselves in the tank. At the initial stages before realizing any food was added into the tank, the salamanders were quite calm and ...