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Still alive? An overdriven common newt on a cycle path next to the Kiel-Canal, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany.

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If you are a biologist and often outside you meet a lot of dead animals.

The first emotional reaction is always a shock followed by a protective avoiding behavior. However, if you learn to control your emotions and force yourself a little to take a closer look to the corpse to identify the species and understand why and how it had to die, you can be confronted with a strange behavior, like in the video.

When I came by the animal - I guess it is a common newt (but not sure to 100%, because of the already ongoing decomposition process with a change of the skin color) - I realized that it had to die due to an accident with a bike and a slight decompression of its head with a deadly destruction of its brain and central nervous system. So far so good, but then, I already wanted to leave, it started to move its tail

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