23: animal axolotl

6 comments so far...

Jean-Pierre Avakian February 19, 2006, 11:38 PM

Too bad I couldn't comment on all the photos with this facsinating creature. Wow. What exactly is it?

ranke February 20, 2006, 08:21 AM

this is a axolotl, the latin name: ambystoma mexicanum
look in wikipedia for more info, my english isn´t good enougt to explain...

mach February 20, 2006, 09:39 AM

it's an extremely interesting and weird little fellow with amazing healing/regeneration abilities. Normal wound-healing in animals occurs through the growth of scar tissue, the axolotl however is fully capable of complete limb re-growth, it has even been known to grow additional limbs. see more

http://www.axolotl.org/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Axolotl

ranke February 20, 2006, 10:04 AM

hey nice thanks for the links

bere February 22, 2006, 01:55 AM

oh wow never thought i would see an AJOLOTE as we call them in spanish in 23, i am from mexico city where in the Xochimilco lake (close where the city was founded by aztecs long long ago) there is a small reserve to keep these guys from being endangered species, it is one of those peculiar curiosities of biology

ranke February 24, 2006, 08:04 AM

interesting can you take a photo of the place?
would be very interesting. besides this is a albinotic (colorless) form.