The Great Crested Newt

The great crested Newt has a very colourful belly. No one really knows why they've got a colourful belly. If you're a Newt and you're colourful, often it's because you want people to know you're toxic. A naturalist called Eleanor Ormarod who tested it by biting a live Newt's tail. She was foaming at the mouth, she had shivering fits. So we found out that they are toxic, but the weird thing is they're newts. They walk around a lot with their belly pointing to the ground. And so no predators can see their bellies anyway. Morels and stuff come up and eat them. The moles could even swim -