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=== Diet === [[File:Axolotl Wild Type.jpg|thumb|Wild form]] The axolotl is carnivorous, consuming small prey such as mollusks,<ref name="animaldiversity.org">{{Cite web|url=https://animaldiversity.org/accounts/Ambystoma_mexicanum/|title=Ambystoma mexicanum (Salamandra ajolote)|website=[[Animal Diversity Web]] }}</ref> worms, insects, other arthropods,<ref name="animaldiversity.org"/> and small fish in the wild. Axolotls locate food by smell, and will "snap" at any potential meal, sucking the food into their stomachs with vacuum force.<ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Wainwright |first1=P. C. |last2=Sanford |first2=C. P. |last3=Reilly |first3=S. M. |last4=Lauder |first4=G. V. |date=1989 |title=Evolution of motor patterns: aquatic feeding in salamanders and ray-finned fishes |journal=Brain, Behavior and Evolution |volume=34 |issue=6 |pages=329β341 |doi=10.1159/000116519 |pmid=2611639}}</ref>
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