After becoming an adult, a salamander can protect itself from the attack of its predator. Thus, they can live quite long. If the salamanders can survive from the attack of predators and diseases, they will live long for years.
Again, this lifespan range varies from species to species. The Oldest Salamander was found alive around six years ago in China. It was a Chinese Giant Salamander. That Chinese Giant Salamander was years old. In captivity, this species can live for 50 years long. So, if this giant salamander was years old, this can be considered as the oldest salamander.
The Chinese Giant Salamander weighed around pounds. Also, this 6 feet long salamander was one of the rarest salamanders. Although we can expect salamanders to live a long life, they die early due to many reasons.
As a result, their lifespan becomes short. Besides their species and genetic features, their captive environmental condition is equally notable. Generally, people take tiger salamander, eastern newt, axolotl, fire belly newt, etc in captivity. If the owner can give proper care and maintenance, these pet salamanders can live up to 25 years. People often think that pet salamanders live longer than wild salamanders. Because there must be no potential predators in the tank of any pet salamanders.
Pet salamanders do not usually live longer than wild salamanders. Because they are recognized as highly sensitive to any alternation in their habitat. You can see how unusual the olm is in the graph below in the gallery above, which plots the lifespan of living amphibians against their mass. The olm is the black dot, looming over the clustered throng of white ones. The deeper mystery here is how the olm achieves such a long life.
The standard explanation says that ageing is the result of the very chemical reactions that power our lives. These reactions furnish us with energy but produce highly reactive molecules called free radicals, which damage any DNA or protein that they touch. Over the years, this constant barrage takes a toll on our bodies and ageing is the result; longer lives can therefore be achieved by stopping the onslaught of free radicals, so the story goes.
There are two main ways of doing this, but neither applies to the olm. Reducing your metabolism could do the trick. Since free radicals are the by-products of energy-producing chemical reactions, species that opt for life in the slow lane will produce less of them. An alternative is to cope with the steady flow of free radicals with antioxidants that neutralise them. Voituron thinks that this tiny salamander will open some promising doors into the biology of ageing for years to come.
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