style="font-size: larger;" | Animals Of Farthing Wood Character

Name:	Mr. Newt / Mrs. Newt / Baby Newt
Species:	Palmate Newt Palmate Newt The Palmate Newt is a species of newt found in most of Western Europe, including Great Britain. It is protected by law in all countries where it occurs, and is thought to be extremely rare to endangered in the Netherlands, Belgium and Luxembourg and vulnerable in Spain and Poland but common...
Seasons:	1
First Appearance:	Mr. and Mrs. Newt: "The Wood In Danger" (1x01), Baby Newt: "The Journey Begins" (1x02)
Last Appearance:	"Through Fire And Through Water" (1x03)
Mate:	Mrs. Newt / Mr. Newt
Offspring:	Baby Newt

Mr. Newt, his wife Mrs. Newt, and their son Baby Newt, are a fictional family

Family

In human context, a family is a group of people affiliated by consanguinity, affinity, or co-residence. In most societies it is the principal institution for the socialization of children...

 of Newts from the animated children's television series The Animals of Farthing Wood based upon the books of the same name by author Colin Dann

Colin Dann

Colin Dann is an English author. He is best known for his The Animals of Farthing Wood series of books, which was subsequently made into an animated series....

. Mr. Newt was voiced by Rupert Farley

Rupert Farley

Rupert Farley is an actor from the UK. He has had various bit roles in Movies such as From Hell and Mrs. Brown. He is probably best known for his voice acting work, which includes voice over work for TV advertisements and animation. His name is well known amongst the fans of "The Animals of...

, who also provided the voice for Fox

Fox (Farthing Wood)

Fox is a fictional character from the animated children's television series The Animals of Farthing Wood based upon the books of the same name by author Colin Dann....

, and numerous other characters in the program.

The Journey to White Deer Park

Mr. and Mrs. Newt are first seen at the emergency assembly of the Farthing Wood animals to discuss the threat posed by mankind's destruction of their woodland home. Mr. Hedgehog was responsible for summoning them there. When Toad

Toad (Farthing Wood)

Toad is a fictional character from the animated children's television series The Animals of Farthing Wood based upon the books of the same name by author Colin Dann....

 is informed that his pond has been filled in, the Newts are seen crying over the loss of their home and water supply at the hands of the humans.

In the second episode, as the animals later meet and prepare to set off on their long and perilous journey to the safety of a nature reserve, the Baby Newt appears for the first time, and is seen suffering from extreme thirst. As the animals travel onwards, the trio find it increasingly difficult to carry on; their need for water becoming more and more desperate, and are finally on the verge of death when Owl

Owl (Farthing Wood)

Tawny Owl is a fictional character in The Animals of Farthing Wood and its many sequels, written by Colin Dann. Tawny Owl also appeared in the animated children's television series of the same name based upon the books...

 spots an outdoor swimming pool

Swimming pool

A swimming pool, swimming bath, wading pool, or simply a pool, is a container filled with water intended for swimming or water-based recreation. There are many standard sizes; the largest is the Olympic-size swimming pool...

 nearby and the family are saved; becoming quickly revitalised after a short swim and a drink.

In the third episode, being aquatic creatures

Aquatic animal

An aquatic animal is an animal, either vertebrate or invertebrate, which lives in water for most or all of its life. It may breathe air or extract its oxygen from that dissolved in water through specialised organs called gills, or directly through its skin. Natural environments and the animals that...

 the Newts are again feeling the effects of a lack of water, and are also finding it extremely difficult to keep up with the larger animals (as a lot of the smaller ones are), so when the group encounters some marshland on the edge of an army

Army

An army An army An army (from Latin arma "arms, weapons" via Old French armée, "armed" (feminine), in the broadest sense, is the land-based military of a nation or state. It may also include other branches of the military such as the air force via means of aviation corps...

 training ground, the family decides to leave the others and stay there because the marsh provides an ideal living environment for them, as Toad states, they won't do any better at White Deer Park. Badger

Badger (Farthing Wood)

Badger is a fictional character from the animated children's television series The Animals of Farthing Wood, based upon the books of the same name by author Colin Dann....

 protests greatly at this decision, pointing out that many of the other smaller animals such as Adder

Adder (Farthing Wood)

Adder is a fictional character from the novel series The Animals of Farthing Wood, written by Colin Dann. He appeared in all of the sequels in the series. Adder also made appearances in the animated children's television series The Animals of Farthing Wood based upon the books. Adder is, as her...

 are carrying on, and that staying behind is 'not in the team spirit', but the leader Fox

Fox (Farthing Wood)

Fox is a fictional character from the animated children's television series The Animals of Farthing Wood based upon the books of the same name by author Colin Dann....

 reluctantly accepts the family's decision as long as no one else wishes to leave, and after saying their goodbyes the rest of the animals continue their journey without them.

Later in the same episode a grass fire is started by a careless human throwing a cigarette

Cigarette

A cigarette is a small roll of finely cut tobacco leaves wrapped in a cylinder of thin paper for smoking. The cigarette is ignited at one end and allowed to smoulder; its smoke is inhaled from the other end, which is held in or to the mouth and in some cases a cigarette holder may be used as well...

 butt out of a car window without first extinguishing it. Chaos ensures, during which Toad and Mole are lost and only just rescued in time by Fox and Badger, but the animals are all eventually able to make it to the safety of a small island

Island

An island or isle is any piece of sub-continental land that is surrounded by water. Very small islands such as emergent land features on atolls can be called islets, cays or keys. An island in a river or lake may be called an eyot , or holm...

 via a shallow causeway

Causeway

In modern usage, a causeway is a road or railway elevated, usually across a broad body of water or wetland.- Etymology :When first used, the word appeared in a form such as “causey way” making clear its derivation from the earlier form “causey”. This word seems to have come from the same source by...

. During the fire, Toad informs Badger the flames have been blown backwards towards the other side of the marsh, and Badger realises with horror that the Newts are in that direction. At the end of the episode when Mole (who was not present when the family decided to leave) asks where the Newts are, Badger, after stuttering

Stuttering

Stuttering , also known as stammering , is a speech disorder in which the flow of speech is disrupted by involuntary repetitions and prolongations of sounds, syllables, words or phrases, and involuntary silent pauses or blocks in which the stutterer is unable to produce sounds...

for a few seconds, tells him not to ask, which suggests he assumed the family had been killed by the flames. Their fate is never revealed in the program, and the trio are never mentioned again by the other animals, so it is generally accepted that they died.