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他们在过关时行色匆匆,有意从远离海关查验岗位的一侧快速通过,从他们身上、腰、腹部、上衣、口袋的香烟盒里,还有背包里发现七十二只古文顿口元。

the axilotl isn't just a freely salamander with a half smile and a blank stare, it's named after an aztec god who escaped death by morphing into this amphibian shape it's a creature that's a bridge between worlds the spiritual and the natural, the aquatic and the terrestrial survival and extinction like most of its salamander relatives the axolotl begins its life as a tiny translucent egg laid under water it grows into a tadpole, a larva with gills and a flattened fin shaped tail in time many salamanders shed these features develop lungs and crawl onto lake, but the axolotl never makes the transition ashore even as it grows up to a foot in length, it hangs onto its larval lifestyle。 the gills are reddish purple from the blood cells pulsing through them pulling oxygen directly from the water to breathe it just flaps those gills, but if that doesn't work like if there's not enough oxygen in the water the axolotal has a backup fully functional logs it can use to gulp air from the surface these organs are evolutionary leftovers from when its ancestors lived on land the axolotl's lungs are a rare example of cryptic metamorphosis when an animal matures to its next stage of development internally, but doesn't show it on the outside despite its flexibility this magnificent vertebrate is in trouble since the sixteenth century the axolotl's native habitat lake sochi milko in mexico city has been built over and polluted as this mega city grew, now the lake is just a few canals where the axolotl's battle invasive predators and warming waters from climate change here in the remnants of their ancestral home only a few hundred are left but scattered across the globe you'll find thousands of them not in the wild, though they're in research labs scientists are impressed by the axle model's ability to rapidly regenerate damaged limbs organs even parts of their brain and that's amazing for a vertebrate an animal with a backbone like us harnessing this healing ability for humans would be a breakthrough, but what does it mean if an animal is thriving only in captivity what is a species without its natural habitat to preserve what's left of the axolotl's wild home a team of biologists at the national autonomous university of mexico started an innovative collaboration they work with farmers of the chinapas the traditional floating gardens along the sochi milko canals where the animals still live the farmers filter canal water for crops through native aquatic plants and gravel without the use of pesticides this protects axle models from both pollution and invasive predators for many in mexico city axolotls have come to symbolize the connection between humans and the natural world humans have put axolotals and our environment in peril, but with traditional knowledge respect and some ingenuity we can give these remarkable animals a chance to come back。
