[Coyoteman]

Two different colors of the same salamander or warbler do not make for different species any more than two different colors of humans makes for two different species.

Please read the information I posted and linked.

It is not the color of the salamanders but their inability to interbreed at the ends of the ring!

That is the definition of a species.

[Southack]

Biologists have *two* mutually exclusive definitions of speciations: any change or the inability to cross-breed.

As for inability, there is a grand difference between lack of desire from that of lack of capability.

That the same salamander “can’t” breed with the same salamander but of a different color is preposterous. That one color salamander wouldn’t *want* to breed with the same species in a different color is far more plausible.

Some white guys don’t fancy black girls. No big deal. But they *could* breed with black girls. Big difference between “don’t want to” from that of “can’t do it physically.”