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Named for an Aztec God, This Species Is Critically Endangered | National Geographic


is a model highly appreciated for its

great features because you can

regenerate almost any part of your

body

this leads to the fact that currently the axolotl

we have it in a risk category

of extinction

but for us as indigenous as

peasants from rural areas of

somehow we try to reverse that

big problem in the principle of

times when the gods he gathers

around the fire they had to

sacrifice to make way for example

the sun to the moon

this meeting was the twin brother

that he saved god they only start you

sacrifice himself by throwing himself into the game to

give life to a new element when you

touch the god only he refuses to

sacrifice of his brother that is something

at bothers me and sent him to chase

to be sacrificed suffers several of

transformations until finally

find lake 8 my son and in this

lake then takes the shape of a flipper and

takes the plunge his brother who is the

player forgives his life is condemned by

fact that from now on

you will live in darkness and always

you will be able to stay in that state

like an axolotl

a study of water

have seen more Mexican is a kind

endemic to the area of ​​the basin of

Mexico and the area of ​​the great

lakes of the prehispanic era

the most important feature its

state of neoteny is not a stage

characteristic a larval stage of

garlic lot in which the rest of

his life unlike salamanders

common we know their habitat

natural is reduced and only a few

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mexico and this one that brings us that

we have done censuses with the institute of

biology at first the uam

xochimilco in 2008 98 where

they found in that first 6,000 census

axolotls per square kilometer each

four or five years are going by

censuses and we have already noticed a

very marked decline in 2014 we made

the last census and we have only 35

axolotls per square kilometer

the main problem has not been a

release in the proper and organisms

alien to the place

in this case we talk about the worst

the wet chemical pollution

that occurred at the beginning of the last century

by the deviation suffered by the

springs of fresh water that

they fed the great the channels were

diverted to the city of Mexico for

drinking water ends and refilling

channels are sewage from the

city combined with the urban sprawl that

every day the area is getting closer

lacustrine

if drastic measures are not taken in the

out of a few decades going to

disappear completely from the channels

he yes bak has developed a program

of maintaining a poor one

colony for several decades in

where we currently have the capacity

of mass production

thousands of juveniles that we’ve been

using for repopulation purposes

the axolotl is really easy to

reproduce will not be extinguished of

laboratories or zoo sodeco

lessons because in an egg laying

We can have up to two thousand eggs 1,500

1,700 new that bet

we know that if we have them confined in

a research center we never go

to succeed and what we do is to do

be doing permanent monitoring

now we are about a year and a half

about having started that

monitorio we currently have animals

in there is a closed space not

has access to the public

then it would also guarantee the

security of the species

why our concern as

locals how are we going to preserve that

It is the great objective

there is our territory there we saw

we developed there we lived with

a whole series of elements in this case

The ajolote is part of our culture

part of the country is part of our

identity

laws

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