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Now I am an Axolotl

Outside/In

English - December 06, 2018 19:14 - 36 minutes - 51.1 MB - ★★★★★ - 752 ratings
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There's only one place in the world that you can find the axolotl—the Mexican salamander—in the wild. This creature is the living embodiment of Xolotl, the Aztec god of heavenly fire, of lightning and the underworld, and the renegade twin brother of Quetzalcoatl. But the wild axolotl’s fate might be bound to the Aztecs by more than myth: its life in 21st century could rely on a landscape both very old and very human.

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