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Axolotl Compare And Contrast

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An axolotl and puffin are very different animals. The puffin is in the aves (Bird) Class, and the axolotl is in the Amphibia (Amphibian) Class. This also means that the axolotl lives primarily in the water, but the puffin only goes into the water to catch food. A puffin lives on land, but the axolotl eventually lives entirely in the water. The axolotl breathes through its gills underwater, but the puffin breathes through its beak. Puffins only lay one egg per breeding season, but an axolotl can lay up to 1,000 eggs per mating. Axolotls can regenerate and regrow any missing limbs, but once a Puffin loses a limb or gets injured, the limb will not recover and it takes a little longer for the injury to recover. The axolotl lives in high altitude …show more content…

Both the puffin and axolotl are colourful, have a distinctive featurette on their head (Axolotl has its colourful and feather-like gills, the Puffin has its brightly coloured horn-like beak), have special modifications to help the animal travel faster and more efficiently, they both eat small fish, and are commonly hunted and eaten by predators and humans. The population of both animals is distinctively decreasing, they both can live on land and swim in water, both reach the age of 15 and range up to 25 years old (the puffin can be older than an axolotls average age, but the age is close to one another), and are extremely adorable. There are not as many similarities as differences, but there are at least some. The axolotl and puffin may not be that similar, but using these animals as examples can show us that how the classification method works and why we use it. We have found some similarities but more differences, and this shows why the axolotl and puffin are not related through classification. Classification is used in our everyday lives, and without the method that Carl Linnaean invented (Wikipedia, 2015), which changed the way that we categorize organisms, a lot of scientific discoveries would not have been discovered, and our everyday lives would be a lot more

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