Axolotl

The axolotl, or axolotl (Ambystoma mexicanum) is an amphibian with a tail that belongs to the family of the tiger tilapia ambistomátidos or from Mexico.

The axolotl looks like a giant tadpole. Its body is elongated, the head is large with small eyes and no eyelids. They have a large mouth and tiny teeth. Their language is retractable (like frogs). They have 4 toes on front paws and 5 on the rear.

At the height of the neck have three pairs of external lateral gills through which they breathe, drink water leaving the mouth and moving them out through the gills.

 They also have sacs of the lungs, which have not developed as the lungs due to its limited use, so it goes, from time to time, to the surface for air.

They measure between 25 and 30 cm in the adult and expect to live 25 years, under normal conditions.
It is carnivorous, their food can be classified as live food and dry food, among others. But his teeth are so rudimentary usually swallowed whole. When the axolotl to eat something, suddenly opens his mouth and absorbs water along with food or what have you around.
Its name in Nahuatl atl, "water" Xolotl, "monster" means "water monster" and comes from the Aztec god Xolotl, brother of Quetzalcoatl and monstrous because of twin birth. Xolotl is a god who is afraid of death, that does not accept and want to escape from it through his powers of transformation.

A curiosity is that the axolotl has the ability to become sexually mature and reproduce in the larval stage. Some may reach maturity (their skin is darker), but not others, so it is common to find larval salamanders in semi-larval lighter in color. But axolotls have no molt.

Another curious feature of the axolotl is that it has the ability to regenerate itself if it has some member amputee, arm or leg, it grows back. You also agree perfectly transplantation of a limb (legs, etc.) of an axolotl to another, and that member becomes fully functional.
The axolotl is native to Mexico and is critically endangered.
 Its only natural habitat is the lakes near Mexico City and some rivers and caves especially Chignahuapan Xochimilco, in the state of Puebla, where they are now very rare.

The causes of extinction of the axolotl are several. On the one hand suffer predation by alien species such as koi and goldfish were introduced by man, and they devour their spawning. Also in Mexico is usually eaten in broth to strengthen the defenses and Mexican folk medicine used to make syrups for respiratory diseases.
By: Dorantes Pimentel Anayansi Abigail