Friday, May 7, 2010

Axolotl

I considered calling this blog :"A Lotl Axcitement" but I thought better of it.

It takes a special person to appreciate the humor in this online video, or rather to even know what it is referring to.

http://forteanzoology.blogspot.com/2010/05/song-about-neoteny-in-tailed-amphibians.html

If you have no idea what an axolotl is, don't feel badly.
It's a mudpuppy-type creature related closely to the tiger salamanders, and native to Mexico.
Even as a relatively wide-read zoo enthusiast, I just found about about the axolotl this year, at age 27.
I recall seeing an axolotl exhibit before I had learned about them, and at the time didn't realize what I was looking at.

http://www.axolotl.org/tiger_salamander.htm

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