自然英语

Olm


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The olm is a mysterious creature that lives in underwater caves inSlovenia and Croatia. The caves they live in are made of limestone and havedark lakes inside of them. For an animal living in this sort of crazyenvironment, you might be thinking, what does the animal eat? The olm eatsworms, aquatic insects, larvae and snails. 

since the olm is blind due to its undeveloped eyes, it uses itsgreat sense on smell and hearing to find food. Again, since it lives in such aweird environment, it doesn’t really have any natural predators. But, the olmis heavily dependent on its environment and pollution is a threat to itshabitat. Right now, they are vulnerable and their population is decreasing. 

Some say this animal looks like a mini dragon that wrigglesaround. It has pinkish pale skin, that lacks pigmentation, and four shortlimbs, and two bright pink attachments near its ears smilie to what an axolotlhas. Something surprising about the olm is that it can live up to 100 years inthe wild. They only get up to about  a foot long and weigh around 1 ounce. 

Do you think this animal looks like an animal at all? 

for wild suzhou i’m palm tree and thank you for listening.

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自然英语By 荒野苏州自然频道

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