Well isn´t he gorgous,-awesome and a real cutie??? Look at those claws!!! Well sorry,-I must have seen too many films by the Australian Crocodile Hunter!!  This is the northeuropean Small Newt,-it´s only about 4´ long. It only swims at springtime and then grows this magnificiant finns.  The rest of the year it spends under rocks and treelogs waiting for the night to come  so it can go hunting for insects and worms.  Sad to say this wonderfull little animal is about to disappear from most places in Denmark due to  pollution and filling up of the small waterholes.  There is a little pond at the Western Cemetery in Copenhagen where it´s still to be found. I use to catch a few for the kids,-keep them a week or two in an aquarium and watch them lay their eggs . Later in the summer we set the small, but fully developed newts back into the pond.