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Now THAT Is Eating Your Foodables Whole!!

The Banana

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Mum's making chilli & garlic prawn linguini for dinner tonight, so I asked if I could have a prawn for the 'lotls.
Worms are the best stable diet for axies, so I've never fed a prawn to my axies before, but I've heard they love them, and are good treats - so I decided to give it a go.

Tenedor was the lucky axie who got it. :happy:
For some unknown, strange axie reason - she was eating sand at the start. Then *gulp* gone.

Axolotl Eating a Prawn.mp4 - YouTube

Axolotls have tiny teeth, but they use them for gripping their prey, and swallow their foodables whole.
If we were able to eat on the same scale as them - we could swallow a basketball whole (I know we all know this... I just like to say it haha)!!! :eek:

As we all know, axolotls can and do eat anything the size of their head smaller, which is why gravel is a no-no.
 

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Great vid! It still amazes me what they can swallow! What a smile she has!
 

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What a cute smileyface! I wish I had a smile like that. (And cute black eyes :D... and....gills....and frills....and.... maybe not. I don't think I would like to eat wormish things and limbs)
 

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Naww... I can so imagine an axie version of Morrison..... sort of......


I'm so jealous of axolotl regeneration skills. Wish I could grow back a whole limb - maybe then I could take up full-on machete fighting! :D
 

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Yep, I agree.
Scientists, hurry up! I want to grow my fingers back when I lose them.
 
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