How Do Axolotls Work?
BrainStuff
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🗓️ 23 January 2024
⏱️ 11 minutes
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These adorable aquatic salamanders are voracious hunters -- and have myth-like powers of regeneration. Learn more about the axolotl in this episode of BrainStuff, based on this article: https://animals.howstuffworks.com/endangered-species/axolotl.htm
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| 0:44.8 | Today, we're talking about axolotles, a threatened species of large salamander that live in |
| 0:49.9 | fresh water, and they're not actually fish at all, despite sometimes being called Mexican walking |
| 0:55.4 | fish. With their round heads and permanently smiling faces, wild axolotles are cute. It's one of |
| 1:02.5 | the reasons they do well with pet owners in the pet trade. One reason they're cute is because they |
| 1:07.6 | display nautony, which means they retain a lot of their juvenile features |
| 1:11.5 | throughout their adult life. Beyond their faces, although adult axolotls also have functional |
| 1:18.4 | lungs like other salamander species, and can breathe through their skin, they also have big, |
| 1:23.9 | fluffy, feathery, external gills, something most amphibians don't keep after babyhood. |
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