Axolotl

The axolotl (Ambystoma mexicanun) is an endangered type of salamander from the Tiger Salamander group. They are almost extinct, due to pollution, rapidly growing human population, and the fish that live in the same ocean like to eat the axolotls' offspring.

A fully grown axolotl male is about 15-45 centimeters long. Most common male axolotls grow up to be about 23 centimeters. The axolotl is also known as the Mexican Walking Fish. Axolotls never change the way they look, for their whole lives. They never change themselves from the form they had when they were born, their larval form. Unlike most amphibians, axolotls don't live on land at all, and are wholly aquatic, yet they are still amphibians. They have lungs, gills and they can also breathe through their skin as well as with their gills and lungs.

Axolotls have a diet of tadpoles, soft insects, worms, and small fish. Housekept axolotls can also eat small pieces of raw meat. They only need to eat once in two or three days. Housekept axolotls (pet axolotls) need to be kept in small groups of only axolotls. If there are too many of the axolotls, they will fight, and other animals would eat them, which happens a lot in nature. Like many other reptiles and amphibians, when they lose their limbs, it will grow back. This also happens to the axolotls' tail, legs, skin, heart, liver, and the kidney. Axolotls live for about 10-15 years. They are born either golden albino, white albino, black, or with spots. Axolotls are fantastic animals that could be extinct, but they should be kept alive and helped.