Axolotl intelligence #2

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stipe

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Hey i was wondering how smart an axolotl actualy is. I saw the other tread talking about tricks or funny things they do but no one seemed to talk about thier intellegence. I want to know thier memory span and if the actualy learn from thier mistakes etc.
Thanks in advance, Stipe
 
All of my Axolotls respond to me when I walk near them and look at them or look over them. But two in particular, my baby gold Bort and my white sub adult Titus, these two will actually look up at me if I look over them. Usually this happens when they are in a container. Bort is normally in a container because he is still a baby.

He responds to me when I look at him, he will come up and keep looking and looking until he actually sometimes tumbles over backwards lol. He does this even when he is full. Titus will keep looking up at me until I move away. If I come back, her head is down but she quickly looks back up at me.

It seems I get more responses out of these two than when my husband does it. I think this maybe because he doesn't feed them. He never does, so perhaps they don't associate him with the "care giver" or "food bringer".

I am wondering if anyone else gets such response? Axolotls seem very curious and they like watching things. I know that sometimes they can't be the brightest of creatures, but I do think that they recognize their owners and who feeds them.

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thats pretty cool rheann, i also wish i knew how smart they are.
 
I have noticed some sort of recognition from Martini, my newest axie. She seems to move her head if I move around her bucket and I saw her blink at me about 3 times yesterday - it was so cute - like she was batting her imaginary eyelids. hehehe.

Stella doesn't seem to recognise me that much, maybe she's angry with me for keeping her in the fridge for so long.
 
Casey, your gold Axolotl has a face sort of like my sub adult Axolotl. I never get responses out of him lol.

Maybe the Anchor worms he got from that pet store made him depressed.
 
my little babies do that, they all gather in one area(usually closest to where i am) and just look up at me, they sit there for ages and just watch what i do, and if i move, they just follow and wont let me out of their site, its the cutest! (they are prob just begging for food but its still cute) lol
 
Mine all look at me too when i come in the room and the put thier pront to legs on the glass and they lok so cute, but when i leave they go buck under the log or hide in the plants.

Btw does anyone know about thier memory span etc.

thanks, stipe
 
i don't think anyone here knows about their memory, seeing as we aren't axies ourselves.
 
I doubt that they have much intelligence. They respond to owners because owners bring food. It's a trained response: beg for food and I'll give you food. So every time we're near, they beg. They follow you around the glass because... well, you're moving. They'll chase almost anything that moves. Most of what they do isn't by 'intelligence' but by inborn behaviors.
 
Can you imagine the way that Axolotls follow us around when they are that small, what they would do to humans if they were as big as whales or sharks?

I think Humans would have gone extinct long ago. Either I'm not making any sense or I am at this moment. I have been up all night with three Mountain Dews and I can't sleep.

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Re: Axolotl intellegence #2

They don't blink, since they don't have eyelids.
 
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