| 31. | These new fish have been eating the axolotls'young, as well as its primary source of food.
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| 32. | Vilem Laufberger of Germany used thyroid hormone injections to induce an axolotl to grow into a terrestrial adult salamander.
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| 33. | The axolotl is currently on the International Union for Conservation of Nature's annual Red List of threatened species.
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| 34. | The axolotl is carnivorous, consuming small prey such as worms, insects, and small fish in the wild.
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| 35. | Recently, this salamander has been used in research as a counterpoint to the more common captive-bred Axolotl.
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| 36. | Birds include the owl, eagle, falcon, pine snakes, xincoyotes, axolotls, frogs, and toads.
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| 37. | The Axolotl Ratchet was named after the critically endangered aquatic salamander Axolotl, which has extraordinary self-healing capabilities.
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| 38. | The Axolotl Ratchet was named after the critically endangered aquatic salamander Axolotl, which has extraordinary self-healing capabilities.
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| 39. | Today, the axolotl is still used in research as a model organism, and large numbers are bred in captivity.
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| 40. | Axolotls are used in heart defect studies due to the presence of a mutant gene that causes heart failure in embryos.
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