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Odd Critters
I don't know how salamanders got the reputation of living in fire. but there are no flames to be seen in the 1912 science short about the critters. They live beneath rotting logs and in the water, which is as far from far as you can get and be a cold-blooded animal.
We get to see a goodly variety of the class of animals, including the Mexican axolotl, a species which exhibits neoteny. Now that I've typed that sentence, I should explain that the name of the critter is from pre-Columbian Mexico, ad that neoteny means that, like Peter Pan, it never grew up. Being an amphibian, it never grew lungs and left the water.
Good pictures, and if you want to look at it yourself, it's on the Eye Institute site on Youtube.
We get to see a goodly variety of the class of animals, including the Mexican axolotl, a species which exhibits neoteny. Now that I've typed that sentence, I should explain that the name of the critter is from pre-Columbian Mexico, ad that neoteny means that, like Peter Pan, it never grew up. Being an amphibian, it never grew lungs and left the water.
Good pictures, and if you want to look at it yourself, it's on the Eye Institute site on Youtube.
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- boblipton
- Aug 14, 2019
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- Les salamandres
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- Runtime6 minutes
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- 1.33 : 1
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