Axolotl (Ambystoma mexicanum) is a type of salamander that spends its life in the form of larvae. This unique exotic animals sometimes also referred to as "Mexican Walking Fish" because he looks like a fish that has hands and feet. However, the Axolotl is not actually a kind of fish, but rare type of salamander found in Mexico City.
Axolotl length can reach 30 cm, but the average size is only 15 cm. The color of their bodies the average black or blonde and many are albino with such funny colors pink. These animals have gills that are outside its body. Gill seems to be beside its head so that a cursory look like horns. Eastern people often creates a fantasy that is associated to a legend of the dragon, so they often referred to as dragon fish.
Axolotl including lizards that have longevity, Axolotl can live up to 10-15 years and can grow up to 60cm, even once caught a giant Axolotl in Mexico that are up to 1.4 meters, the discovery was a complete surprise, but after the carefully by the experts it is just an abnormal situation that rarely occurs (gigantism)
Axolotl always live in the water and likes to eat small fish, worms, and larvae. These animals sometimes appear on the surface of the water, but there is also a mature and grow ahead of never arise in surface water and only stayed in the bottom of the lake during his lifetime. This species are classified in the dangerous salamander species , because it can give off toxic salt from his mouth, but if the gland is in the waste properly, these animals can make a cute pet.
Axolotl Names taken from the Aztec language means water dog.
Axolotl still closely related to the tiger salamander.Uniquely, this animal in a state of metamorphosis only when forced, forced in this case is if they live where the water sources dry up, the Axolotl can be metarmorphosis to the form of land and if there is water already, then Axolotl can return to form water. Land from the axolotl form similar to the form of larvae, with the difference that disappeared gills, a tail that is more compress and protruding eyes visible. The presence of certain hormones are known to trigger the axolotl metamorphosis into a terrestrial reptile.
He can regrow limbs, tusks, skin, organs, and parts of the brain and spine injured. Some other animals have the ability to regenerate, but only a Mexican salamander that can grow back so many different body parts in all their lives.
Axolotl can be found in Lake Xochimilco and Lake Chalco in Mexico. Later, their populations are threatened due to development carried out on the lake which was to prevent seasonal flooding, so the amount of water in the lake to shrink and their habitat disturbed. Number of axolotl in nature is unknown. But the population is estimated to decline from about 1,500 per square mile in 1998 to only 25 per square mile this year, according to research scientists Zambrano using nets. Long Enterprises International Union for Conservation of Nature enter axolotl in its annual Red List as endangered species threatened with extinction. They say these animals could disappear within five years.
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