Hello everyone, welcome back to relax with Animal Facts.

I am Steph Wolf and today I am going to be learning with you about our furry, scaly,

or possibly even slimy friends.

And in today's case, it is definitely going to be a slimy friend of ours

because it is, as you could probably read from the title,

the seemingly very popular and oh so wonderful axolotl.

So this is a special listeners episode dedicated to Lottie,

Aubrey, Darya, and Ava, who all wrote in either on Instagram or through email. If you would

like to have your animal on the podcast, you can go ahead and send a suggestion

either to Relax with Animal Facts on Instagram or you could send an email to relax with

animal facts at gmail.com.

Now, today is a very, very special episode, not just because it is a listener

episode, but because it is the 50th episode of the podcast, of the show, and that marks the

ending of season two. So that means the next podcast episode in a couple weeks will be

season three, which is amazing to me that we've already done 50 episodes and I've learned so

much along the way and I hope that most of you, long-term listeners, have learned some things as

well, or just relaxed. It doesn't matter to me. What's important is that you enjoy the show,

and with that said, let's not dilly-dally anymore. I'm super excited to learn about this little

salamander, spoiler alert, but they are salamanders.

Now, before we get right into it, why don't we just take a second to notice around our bodies

where we're carrying some tension and go ahead and try your best to relax that tension and focus on the fact that we're going to be

going through today as we step into the freshwater lakes and ponds in this immersive experience

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