Browsing: Hedgehog Health

The wild axolotl is critically endangered because its only home, the canals of Xochimilco near Mexico City, has been drained, polluted, and overrun by invasive fish…

In the wild, axolotls face introduced fish, water birds, and a few native hunters in their Xochimilco home. The biggest threat by far is invasive tilapia…

Line breeding means pairing related axolotls on purpose to lock in a color morph or trait. Hobbyists do it because crossing siblings fixes a look fast…

Axolotls are legal to own in most of the United States. A few states restrict or ban them, and federal import rules tightened in 2025. The…

Axolotl color comes from three pigment cell types in the skin: melanophores for black and brown, xanthophores for yellow and red, and iridophores for shine. Each…

Source your axolotl from a captive-bred breeder who keeps lineage records, screens for disease, and answers your questions, never from the wild and rarely from a…

Ms Burdon said it was “getting harder and harder for hedgehogs” A hedgehog expert has said the health conditions of the animals she rescued this year…

Ms Burdon said it was “getting harder and harder for hedgehogs” A hedgehog expert has said the health conditions of the animals she rescued this year…

Ms Burdon said it was “getting harder and harder for hedgehogs” A hedgehog expert has said the health conditions of the animals she rescued this year…

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