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25 paź 2022 · Postojna Cave is one of the biggest tourist attractions in Slovenia. It is home to salamanders called olms, which locals once believed were baby dragons. Photograph by Zeljko Stevanic, Xinhua ...
3 gru 2021 · Deep in vast caverns of the Postojna cave network, a blind salamander found nowhere else on Earth is one of the star attractions both for visitors and the scientists unraveling its secrets.
Common names. It is also called the "human fish" by locals because of its fleshy skin color (translated literally from Slovene: človeška ribica, Macedonian: човечка рипка, Croatian: čovječja ribica, Bosnian: čovječija ribica, Serbian: човечја рибица), as well as "cave salamander" or "white salamander". [10]
The olm or proteus (Proteus anguinus ) is an aquatic salamander in the family Proteidae, the only exclusively cave-dwelling chordate species found in Europe. In contrast to most amphibians, it is entirely aquatic, eating, sleeping, and breeding underwater.
20 lip 2010 · In the caves of Slovenia and Croatia lives an animal that’s a cross between Peter Pan and Gollum. It’s the olm, a blind, cave-dwelling salamander, also called the proteus and the “human fish ...
25 kwi 2016 · The salamander’s S-curve has been found carved into the weathered stone of at least one stećak, a type of medieval tombstone that lies scattered across the region.
1 lip 2015 · The olm is also known as the proteus, cave salamander, and white salamander. In Slovenia, it is called "močeril," which translates to "the one that burrows into wetness." Another local name for the creature is "oveja Ribica," which means "human fish."
