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These animals are really interesting their skin is used to make medicine for respiratory illnesses
their meat is edible and has very high nutritional valor
also it has the most advanced regeneration capacity of any other vertebrate.
It's one of the vertebrates with the highest capacity to regenerate.
these animals can regenerate parts of their bodies like the legs, tail, gill,
lower jaw, iris, brain cells and heart muscles.
In fact these organisms are under investigation at universities mainly for the regeneration of body tissue.
The animal is in danger of extinction due to the introduction of (foreign) species in the Xochimilco canals
the pollution of their ecosystem by detergents, drainage, plant fertilizers and over fishing
The name Axolotl refers to a god, the god Xolotl, twin brother of Quetzalcoatl.
Supposedly, the legend says that in every world renovation, the life of a god had to be sacrificed.
When it was god Xolotl's turn, he refused and came to live on earth.
Here, so that he wouldn't be found, he transformed himself into different forms.
One of them is the maguey, that Aztecs new as Mexolotl. It was the persevering god because of it's big size.
And another of his transformations is the guajolote, which the Aztecs new as the huexolotl, the old god, or wise god.
One of his last transformations was the ajolote, which is the axolotl, the young god, as it never goes trough a metamorphosis.
And he decides to live at the bottom of the Great Tenochtitlan, in the canals.