🐸 Axolotl vs Japanese giant salamander 🐸

The Japanese giant salamander is about 5 times as long as the axolotl.

🧒 our measuring child, 4 ft1.2 m🐸 Axolotl, 11.8 in30 cm long🐸 Japanese giant salamander, 5 ft1.5 m long

Row	🐸 Axolotl	🐸 Japanese giant salamander
Top speed Neither has a checked number yet.	no checked number yet	no checked number yet
Weight We don't have a checked number for the axolotl yet.	no checked number yet	51 lb23 kg1
Lives We don't have a checked number for the axolotl yet.	no checked number yet	70 years70 years1
Eats Both eat meat.	worms, insects, snails and small fish	fish, crabs, frogs and insects
Lives in They can live in the same kind of place.	the lakes and canals of Xochimilco, near Mexico City in Mexico	cold, clear mountain rivers in western Japan

Which one? Axolotl or Japanese giant salamander

📏 Length

🐸 Axolotl12 in30 cm2

🐸 Japanese giant salamander4.9 ft1.5 m1

We don't have a checked top speed for the axolotl or the Japanese giant salamander yet, so there is no race.

We only race. Real animals mostly avoid each other. A race is the only fair contest: who reaches the tree first, by top speed.

Getting the animals ready…

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