How To Save The Axolotl From Becoming Extinct
27 August 2009, 9:45 AM. By Alex Alvarez
We’ve introduced you to the axolotl before, telling you that the amphibious little bugger, while a popular pet (/lunch) choice, is in danger of becoming extinct. And things haven’t gotten any better for them! A new survey out of Mexico estimates there are only somewhere between 700 and 1,200 axolotls exist in the wild, specifically in the Xochimilco area in the country’s center. Compare this to 6,000 axolotls living in the same area in 1998. Researchers see a direct correlation between the growth of nearby cities - including DF - and a drop in axolotl numbers. Just like Ferngully, y’all.
So what can we do to try and save these adorable little creatures? We have a few suggestions:
- Marry a few off to Jennifer Lopez. She’ll feed them, love them, pose with them and swaddle them in cashmere. They really seem like her tyoe, too.
- Give it a few of Dakota Fanning’s roles. She’s been filming Twilight: Sparklestalker and The Runaways at the same time. It’s too much stress for a young girl, and there’s no reason why she should have a monopoly on all roles meant for wiry, cute, translucent creatures who remain in their larval state.
- Give it a show about its success in procreating.
Axolotl verges on wild extinction [BBC, via dlisted]
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how about collecting all they can, and moving them to a place with similar conditions outside the city.
Oh man, I had a Chinese friend who kept an Axolotl as a pet in a tank way back in the day. It was actually at the lab where she worked. It was creepy.
I remember hearing a story about a baby one swimming up a teenage girls chocha while she was bathing in a river. It ended up growing inside of her. She wasn’t aware of this until her stomach started growing and everybody thought she was pregnant and was all shunned and shit, you know, for being not being a virgin and consequently being a “whore” and then when she went to get an ultrasound they saw it was an Axolotl. But the damage was still done…everyone still thought she was a whore.
That’s a sweet story. I think I’ll use it as a bedtime / cautionary tale when I have (human) womb goblins of my very own.