Saving the hellbender
July 14, 2009 | 10:10 p.m. CDT
Jeff Briggler, a state herpetologist with the Missouri Department of Conservation, discusses the plight of North America’s largest salamander, the hellbender. The footage of the hellbenders seen in this video was taken from the St. Louis Zoo’s Ron Goellner Center for Hellbender Conservation and is courtesy of Mark Wanner, zoological manager of reptiles, amphibians and aquatics.
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