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Published: 2005-02-21 18:58:59 +0000 UTC; Views: 1689; Favourites: 26; Downloads: 61
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We were wandering around the orchid exhibition in one of the greenhouses in kew gardens, and i spotted this Axolotl in one of the water features. Weird looking thing. For more info visit [link] Big thanks to *FleshTraktor for identifying the beast.Related content
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AWW! i love these guys! xsomone nearby me breeds them. o-o
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aw thanks for the mention, they eat frozen bloodworms, little processed pellets, worms and finger tips (they don't have teeth, luckily) they live for 12-18 years, grow fairly large, know their owner from other people, wave at you with their little five fingered hands (which look eerily human), regenerate when injured so well that scientists have swapped axolotl's brains and other bits in all kinds of twisted experiments >> [link] and >> [link] should provide for some gruesome bedtime reading. Axolotls are relatively common in pet stores, are cheap and fairly easy to care for, just look up the back or in the tanks they sell underwater plants in, I'll post some pics of mine when I get a chance to dig up some files 
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hehe, thats stuff is creepy but quite interesting. they sound awesome, much more interesting than cats. who knows, i may even get one in the future 
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Axolotl people, it's an axolotl (or mexican walking fish for the plebians). It is a highly intelligent amphibian that remains in a neotic (adolescent) state for its whole life, I have raised four of them and I can definately say they are quite cute, particularly when they bite onto your finger and won't let go....
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well whadya know
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lmao it does look like a moomin with a head that big!!
looks sort of Alien,
almost surreal to think that u can find those things crawling around in the wild.
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nature yeilds some pretty funny looking creatures! glad u enjoyed my work
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Hey! I know that monster! It's in my biology textbook.
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It doesn't say. Just "Salamander".
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they are the cutest eye's have ever seen almost cuter than sponge bob's it's not ugly and it must be very brave
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it could just be really thick
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lol that to omg ye sponge bob rules lol did ya see the movie?i was in fits!
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havent had a chance to watch it yet, but im looking forward to it, he kills me
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aw man lame but halerious laughs
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this is a deeply weird looking creature - and i agree that its definitely like one of the classic moomins
great shot
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thank you. it struck me as rather odd when i saw it.
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haha he looks like an uncooked piece of fish. it makes me hungry looking at him.
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haha. would probably taste like chicken.
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he's a mud puppy!!!! or at least he looks like the ones we have here, just ours aren't white, well not the ones I have seen anyway, an albino mud puppy, that is kick ass wicked coolness!!!! I dissected mud puppies in college in one of my more advanced biology classes, it totally rocked!!! yes I am sick I know, it just all fascinates me!!! I am so taken by him that I simply must 
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lol. they look too cute and harmless to cut up 
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it was just plain weird lol.
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speeeew! not the photography mind you- The salamander!
gives me creepies!
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yer, weird looking thing :/
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it freaks me out that!
but great shot!
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This reminds me of me. I'm so white i'm actually transparent, when i go sunbathing it takes me a week to go white. hehe. Although, I do have to say...my eyes are slightly closer together lol.
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i thought it looked like a moomin. weird.
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whats a moomin? sounds like unicorns or something.. like little people that ride unicorns.. is that it?
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nah, dont worry about it. silly comparison really. it was just an 80's cartoon i used to watch, and they were all white.
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Damn right, i dont want my ass to be fried, thankyou!
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yer, and it wasnt the least bit bothered about me poking my camera lense in its face
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