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Axolotl (ambystoma mexicanum) is a salamander type that spend most of their time in the shape of larva. These unique and exotic animal also known as “Mexican Walking Fish” because they look like fish with hand and feet. However, axolotl is not fish species, they are very rare salamander species that live in Mexico City. The Axolotl can reach 30 cm length, but their average size is only 15 cm. most of them has black or brown blonde color and also the albino too with cute color like pink. These animal gill is placed on the outside of their body. With the gill at the side of their head, in a glance, makes them look like horn. Some time the oriental people (Asia) often lead these animal to the fantasies about the legend of dragon snake, it makes them also called as dragon fish.

The axolotl is long-live animal, they can live from 10 – 15 years and can reach maximum growth upto 60cm, and there was a giant axolotl has been caught in mexico has 1,4 meter size, those discovery are really surprising, after the scientist doing their research on caught axolotl, the scientist said that these abnormal growth case on giant axolotl is very rare.

Axolotl always live in water and their main diet is small fish, worm and larva. Sometimes these animal came to surface, but it’s very rare, usually they spend most of the time in the bottom of the pond and never came to surface for the rest of their life. These Salamander species is very dangerous, because they can spray tixic salt from their mouth, but if you put away their toxic gland, these animal can be a cute pet to keep.

The name axolotl was derived from the Aztec language, it means “water dog”. Axolotl has close related with tiger salamander. Uniquely , these animal is metamorphosis in dangerous situation, such as the water source where they live is dry, so the axolotl change their shape in to dry mode, and if the pond has fill with the water again, they will change their shape into water mode again. The dry/land mode shape are similar with their their oroginal shape (larva) when they lived in the water. The difference is only on their gill that disappear, small tail and poping eye. The presence of certain hormone are known as a trigger of metamorphosis into land reptile. Furthermore, adding the small dose of iodine can cause same result.

The axolotl can regenerate their body part such as fang, skin, and part of the brain and their damage spine. Some animal has the ability to regenerate, but only the Mexican salamander can regenerate so many body part for the rest of their live.

Axoltl was found in Xochimilco lake and chalco lake in mexico. Recently their population was endangerous causing by the development around the lake to prevent annual flood, it make the water volume on the lake was shrink and interrupting their habitat. The intervention of other fish that came from other area also make their population shrink. The number of axolotl in their main habitat are unknown. But the population has decrease from around 1.500 per mile square on 1998 become 25 per mile square these year, these research was based on zambrano scientist using web equipment. The long effort of International Union for Conservation of nature has put in the axolotl into yearly Red List as endangerous species. They said these species can be vanish in five year.