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    The Axolotl is a unique salamander that lives exclusively in two lakes in Central Mexico. It has the ability to regenerate limbs and other body parts. Due to habitat loss and pollution, its population has declined drastically. The Axolotl has adapted to its environment through traits like various skin colors for camouflage. However, further human interference through pollution, predator introduction, and overharvesting threaten the Axolotl's long term survival in the wild. Conservation efforts aim to protect remaining habitats and curb human impacts.

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    The Axolotl is a unique salamander that lives exclusively in two lakes in Central Mexico. It has the ability to regenerate limbs and other body parts. Due to habitat loss and pollution, its population has declined drastically. The Axolotl has adapted to its environment through traits like various skin colors for camouflage. However, further human interference through pollution, predator introduction, and overharvesting threaten the Axolotl's long term survival in the wild. Conservation efforts aim to protect remaining habitats and curb human impacts.

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    The Axolotl is a unique salamander that lives exclusively in two lakes in Central Mexico. It has the ability to regenerate limbs and other body parts. Due to habitat loss and pollution, its population has declined drastically. The Axolotl has adapted to its environment through traits like various skin colors for camouflage. However, further human interference through pollution, predator introduction, and overharvesting threaten the Axolotl's long term survival in the wild. Conservation efforts aim to protect remaining habitats and curb human impacts.

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    Axolotl

    ~ Mexican Walking Fish ~

    The Axolotl
    Ambystoma mexicanum (Scientific Name).
    The Axolotl is a salamander.
    Belongs to the Amphibian group.
    Fascinating Features Such as:
    Grotesque appearance
    Its ability to regenerate
    Exhibits the phenomenon known as neoteny (Stays in Larva form).

    Habitat
    The Axolotl lives only in Lake Xochimilco and Lake Chalco in Central
    Mexico.
    Lake Chalco however was drained by humans to prevent flooding, so the
    Axolotls can only live in a lake made up of many canals.
    The Axolotl relies on Mexicos aquatic vegetation to attach their eggs for
    fertilization.
    Lake Xochimilco is known for its Floating Gardens, which are strips of
    land between
    drainage channels where the local people grow plant life and is a place
    where Axolotls can be found.

    Stages Of Growth
    Stage 1 the egg is typically amphibian (2 mm in diameter).
    Stage 2 is the embryo prior to hatching. (11mm in length).
    Stage 3 is the young larva, prior to the growth of limbs.
    Stage 4 the front legs develop first, followed within a few weeks by the hind legs.
    Stage 5 the axolotl is, to all intents and purposes, a miniature adult.

    The Genetic Colours


    Genetic Colours may vary.
    Albino
    White (Also called Leucistic)
    Melanoid
    Wild Type
    Combinations

    Colour Variants

    Adaptations To
    Environment
    The Axolotl has adapted to its
    environment in many ways.
    Axolotls that spend most time in
    shallow waters use their
    lungs to breath, but others
    that stay in deep waters use
    their gills.

    Depending on the area they live


    in, the have different skin
    colors to match the
    environment.

    Physical Changes
    The axolotl is considered quite unique, for it
    stays in its larva state throughout its whole life
    (a condition called neoteny.) Although axolotls
    live primarily in water and breathe oxygen
    through their gills and skin, they also develop
    rudimentary internal lungs. Axolotls are primarily
    dark and muddy to blend into its dark and murky
    surroundings, but albino and white axolotls are
    common as well.

    Functional Changes
    Axolotls can REGENERATE! Within a period of months, an axolotl can
    regrow their limbs or other missing body parts, such as the spine or parts of
    their brain. They adapted to the exponential decline of their species, so they
    became regenerative to reduce the deaths of the axolotl species.

    Behavioral Changes
    The axolotl is emotionless most of the time but they are usually active in the early
    morning to early evening.
    If you have a pet axolotls that is kept in a group or two, they have to be fed
    regularly since a starving axolotl will eat the limbs of another axolotl.
    Axolotls must never be kept together with other animals such as small fishes
    which would be eaten by the axolotl.

    Behavioral Changes
    The natural breed for an axolotl is in spring since the water temperature increases and
    the lengthening of days.
    Fertilisation occurs between a few hours to a few days.
    The female axolotl is capable of releasing 400-1000 eggs during spawning.
    The female axolotl is also capable of breeding several times and the egg of an axolotl
    has visible feathery gills.

    Behavioral Changes
    After the female axolotl attaches her eggs onto a plant the hatching of the egg will occur
    after 2 to 3 weeks and after the baby axolotl hatches the larger and more developed
    axolotls eat the smaller ones.
    The adaptation of the axolotl could have developed due to the fact that there was not
    enough food for 400 to 1000 eggs, therefore only a small amount of baby axolotls can
    survive.
    The larger and more develop axolotls meals are the smaller and more undeveloped
    axolotls.

    Ancestors
    The mole salamander is made up of 32 different species, including the
    Axolotl.
    Mole Salamanders get their name from their subterranean habits. They
    are found living in small tunnels produced by mammals.
    Axolotls were tied to the mole salamander by its neotenic life
    history.
    It was found that some mole salamanders do not mature and
    stay in their larval form; like the axolotl.
    The axolotls overall characteristics tied them each other too.

    Family Tree
    The highlighted
    box is the
    scientific name of
    the axolotl:
    Ambystoma
    mexicanum

    Mechanism Of Natural Selection


    Natural Selection is where the species that have genes that cause
    disadvantages die out and dont reproduce while the species that have genes
    that benefit it live on and reproduce, passing down the good gene.
    For example, there are two types of beetles on a green leaf. One is red and the
    other is green. The red one is most likely to die out because it doesnt have the
    gene that camouflages it. The green ones live on, reproduce, and pass down
    the camouflaging gene.

    Natural Selection (Axolotl)


    Its teeth are pedicellate. With these it grips its food, maneuvering it
    into position before swallowing it whole.
    High immune system (Regeneration Ability) easily wounded/hurt.
    Share body parts with other Axolotls (biologic similarities).

    Future Structural Adaptations


    More Defenses Against Predators
    Adjusts to Breathing in Pollutants
    Start to Walk on Land more to live in
    different areas and escape predators

    Future Functional Changes


    Swim Faster to escape predators
    and to catch more food.
    Sees Farther to notice prey,
    humans, and predators easier.
    Thicker skin to protect themselves
    against predators, outside forces
    and pollutants.
    Can Live on the Surface to expand

    Future Behavioral Changes


    Becomes More Hostile / Aggressive
    Humans put more predators into their environment

    More Resilient
    Humans pollute area causing more deaths

    Hides More
    Humans and predators hunt and capture them.

    Environmental Changes
    Major environmental changes the Axolotl has faced are heavily polluted living
    spaces and an environment with more aggressive and hostile creatures.
    Humans have dumped pollutants and different fish that prey on the axolotl
    into the axolotls environment.
    This caused a huge decrease in the axolotl population, and it was all by
    mans hand.

    Humans Vs Axolotls
    What were doing that hurts them:
    Testing projects that include Axolotls.
    Tearing them apart and putting them back together
    Habitat has pollutants.
    Dirty water/Sewage
    Caught for food.
    Fishes eat them (We put them there).
    Buying them as pets off the internet.
    Not taking good care of them

    Why and What we Should do to Preserve Them?


    Now wild Axolotl are protected.
    Its forbidden to catch them.
    Sold as pets to GOOD owners.
    Make a wildlife reserve for them.
    Enforce the laws.
    Stop research.
    Go green.

    Work Cited
    John P Clare. Axolotls. John P Clare. 2012. Web. 4 March 2016.
    Konica Minolta. Konica Minolta Inc. 2016. Web. 4 March 2016.
    Ambystoma mexicanum. (n.d.). BioWeb Home. 4 March, 2016.
    Axolotl. (2010, June 20). Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. 5 March, 2016.
    Axolotl (Ambystoma mexicanum). (n.d.). EDGE :: Amphibian Species Information.
    7 March, 2016.
    Mexican Axolotls or Mexican Walking Fish. Britni Osuldsen. Bioweb. 5 March, 2016.
    Our Intellect. Brains. (n.d.) All Our Lives.

    ~The End~

    This Concludes Our Presentation About The


    DEADPOOL FISH

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