Sunday, May 02, 2010

INTERESTING EXAMINATION OF NEOTENY IN TAILED AMPHIBIANS



3 comments:

  1. You had me rolling on the floor!

    Axolotls are about to go extinct in the wild. They are only found in the lakes near Mexico City.

    The Axolotl is a species of tiger salamander. There are actually populations of neotenic tiger salamanders in the US.

    I think the salamander singing this song is actually adult barred tiger salamander: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Barred_Tiger_Salamander_Tennoji.jpg

    Here's what a real metamorphosed axolotl looks like:

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

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  2. Or maybe an Eastern tiger salamander,

    http://www.axolotl.org/images/tiger/john_tiger_2.jpg

    The ones in captivity are always obese!

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  3. Thank you for this Moment of Zen, inspiring a blog entry of mine which is sorta a re-post

    http://operationox.blogspot.com/2010/05/axolotl.html

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