Chinese Giant Salamander

Chinese Giant Salamander, Hong Kong Ocean Park

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Pets & Animals

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• MVI
• 0991

[lagrangewei]

you can hear someone say "that's not a fish!" in the background... lol...

[snow4aaron]

@lagrangewei Thanks for the translation, was it in Cantonese?

[sugreev2001]

Thumbs up if you came here from Cracked.com

[Angsc09]

This creature is Critically Endangered it need to protect by Law or else it were disappeared I hope our country of people can help this poor thing.

[eazypeazylq]

i know how to sort these out, just pull out your wand and say 'Aqua eruptooo!'

[landofthefreemyass]

@Angsc09

Laws generally do nothing to save habitat. Also as long as they are in high demand as food they will be rare. Commercial farms need to become more successful in producing them for food and set a percentage aside for reintroduction to the wild. This model has been used successfully in several countries with crocodilians.

[HsushiKing]

@vfvaml1990 Hahahaha

[vfvaml1990]

@sedohrj87 might wanna get tht checked son

[sedohrj87]

looks like ma dick

[Microglia1]

it looks like a tree

[zytigon]

There is a good chapter about salamanders in the excellent book, " The ancestor's Tale " by Richard Dawkins. He talks about how the salamanders of The Central Valley, California are a Ring species. There is hybridization all round the ring, except where the two ends of the line meet, in the far south of California. For more about Ring species try wikipedia

[despairedboy]

@tedde981016 go google "chinese giant salamander"

I know the one you are talking about, but this is not the one

they are very closely related though

[despairedboy]

@twistedted actually not really, Hanzaki is the Japanese subspecies, this is the Chinese variant,

essentially these are a bit larger, live in more temperate regions, and are much rarer

[SniperChachi]

Giant salamander