The African elephant has an average gestation period of 660 days, the longest for land mammals. But a much smaller animal beats this record. The alpine black salamander’s gestation period is 1,156 days.
That is 38 months. I just read this on my little desk calendar today. And I happen to have a photo that I took of this particular salamander when I was in Switzerland! I wondered what these things were…
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By the way, these salamanders are mating! Mom