CHINESE GIANT SALAMANDER - Andrias davidianus (London Zoo)

Well, well, well ... an old favourite of mine here and something I have not seen in a long time!

In fact the last one might have been Andrias japonicus which would make this the first time I have seen this species?

The friend I was with has a free pass to London Zoo, not been in there myself in twenty years I imagine, maybe longer. He is always looking at this one and said he only ever sees its back end and never its head.

I crouched down in my amazement and passion, pressed my head up to the glass and he or she backed out, turned around and came straight up to the glass to face me, lol.

Do not worry, I will hopefully return with a much better camera within 4 to 6 weeks? Fingers crosssed!

After several exclamations about it walking straight up to the glass to face me I said that maybe we were two kindred spirits and it sensed that? LOL!

Fascinatingly beautiful.

Would like to have seen one at twice the size but it was a special moment all the same!

These London Zoo videos were filmed a couple of months back and I kept forgetting to upload them ...

I have something called Fibrofog from a condition called Fibromyalgia that causes a lot of pain along with embarrassing things too ... 120 odd all told.

Doesn't include my Oesophagitis, Hiatus Hernia, damaged right knee though.

The NHS wrongly diagnosed me and then kept the real diagnosis from me when they realised for what I thought was 13 years. I later realised it was closer to 20 years!

That along with something that courts, councils and others did that went back 20 years and then turned into a court case over 3 years was why I got involved in sniffing out corruption, recording it mostly by sound and some video and started up my corruption blog.

To my surprise the next thing I knew, well after several years of recording, the corruption and lies were everywhere and I haad over 100GB of collected data.

Could be more than 150GB now? Not counted it up in a fair old while.

WAs happy here as I thought my endeavours in this subject were about to take me away on a very long journey?

It has stalled! LOL ...groan! Likely stopped completely. Only time will tell.