We have been learning to write an information report for writing. This week we wrote about about the spectacular creature of an Axolotl. Here is my information report.
Axolotls are amazing. Axolotls can grow back part of its body, so say it got it's leg cut off it will just grow it back in 40 to 50 days!
The color of an axolotl's body can be black, pale pink, brown or white. Axolotls look like a tadpole with legs, a dorsal fin and a pair of external gills. Axolotl do not have eyelids. An Axolotl can grow 9 to 10 inches long and it's uncommon for them to reach lengths bigger than 12 inches. As they get older they look the same as they did when they were babies but they just get bigger. They kind of look like eels except for they have cute little arms and tentacles like gills.
Axolotls live for a long time, they live up to 15 years on a diet of worms, insects, crustaceans and some fish. This species has begun to suffer from the introduction of large fish into its lake habitat.
Axolotls use snakelike reflexes to lunge at their food and catch it before it can run away.These movements are often much, much faster than their normal swimming speed.
Axolotls can regrow the same limb up to 5 times.
The feathery looking things that sick out from either side of its head are called its gills.
I hope you have enjoyed learning about Axolotls with me, they are truly spectacular and kinda cute creatures.
Here is an Axolotl.
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hey Caitlin.i love your information report about axolotls. when i was little i didn't know anything about axolotls. how do they swim and move their hands? anyway great post. from soph
ReplyDeleteI just had to comment on this blog Caitlin.I used to have several Axolotls over a period of years.My last one was white and I called it Fish.I was hoping to get a black and white one that looked like a cow but they are quite hard to get.
ReplyDeleteI used to feed mine worms and tadpoles.
Do you think you'd get one as a pet if you were allowed too?.
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