Ahuizotl

The Ahuizotl is from the Classical Nahuatl: āhuitzotl for "spiny aquatic thing", a.k.a. "water dog".

The Ahuizotl is a capuchin monkey with extensions on its tail that serve as its fifth limb, giving it a dog-like appearance due to convergent evolution. They can cling to walls and stand upright while balancing on them because to their prehensile tail. The color of its body varies from peach to yellowish. You can do anything else with the brown to black claws. For Ahuizotls, they employ mahogany, brown, black, gray, and white fur. Many locals can easily identify the Ahuizotl because of their leaf-nosed, bat-shaped ears. The Ahuizotl's primary eye color is brown.

The Ahuizotl weighs 149 kilograms, or more than 300 pounds, and is between 1.70 and 1.90 centimeters long. Its tail is between 70 and 100 centimeters long.

Along with their hands and feet, the Ahuizotl also used their prehensile tail, or handtail, as a third limb. Guava, avocado, manchineel, cherimoya, sugar apple, cacao, and even the legendary poison apple were among the many fruits found in the rainforests and abandoned temples where the Ahuizotl lived. The highly intelligent Ahuizotl uses trees and lianas as part of its environmental strategy to evade human traps. Ahuizotl are semi-arboreal animals that can paddle large distances in short bursts when needed, but they are not natural swimmers. Due to predators like alligators, crocodiles, and caimans, the majority of these animals typically stay out of deep water.

The Ahuizotl can stand on its tail and utilize it to grab items or terrain since its tail is prehensile enough to function as an extra leg and powerful enough to sustain the monster's entire weight. While the handtail is smooth and enables the monster to move around when standing on the back of its tail claw, the tail claws have significant grip strength and traction. The Ahuizotl has unparalleled power as a bludgeon thanks to its reinforced handtail and powerful tail, which can break through rock and swiftly crush big trees to splinters. 

Since the Ahuizotl had closed its eyes and relied only on its ears and nose during near-death experience mode, it needs the eyes of animals, including humans, to see. The villagers seem to sacrifice other people's eyes to the Ahuizotl in order to stop it from robbing them.

Fruits, insects, tiny vertebrates, eggs, flowers, and occasionally nuts make up the omnivorous and opportunistic diet of the ahuizotl. For this species, the ecosystem has a crucial function in dispersing seeds, promoting forest regeneration, and lowering the number of tiny animals. This monkey's generalist lifestyle enables them to flourish in damaged forests, temples, deserted cities, or close to farmland.

Ahuizotl females give birth to one or two offspring after between 130 and 230 days of gestation. They are gregarious and cooperative creatures that create groups of three to fifty members, with the larger species often forming larger groups. Unlike their relatives, they can swim and are often nocturnal in behavior. Large birds of prey and other predators are significant natural adversaries of Ahuizotl infants. They are so terrified of the birds that they even panic when a different, non-threatening bird flies by.

There could be more Ahuizotl in the bush. These are the "thousand eyes" that it has taken. It has been observed that this creature will eat any soft, delicate part of a living thing, despite the fact that its primary food source is the essence of eyes to make blind people (although many conservationist hunters born with strange abilities are protected from being blinded by Ahuizotl thanks to their "Deity" genes).

Reproduction

• Females give birth every 5–6 years.

• Gestation ~5–6 months.

• Usually one infant, carried on the mother’s back for many months.

• Long juvenile dependency period (~3–5 years).

• Lifespan: up to 40+ years in captivity, 15–25 in the wild.

The Ahuizotl live in solidarity, which means they coexist, but during the breeding season, they create intricate social groups with ten to twenty-five or more members. There were strict hierarchies of dominance, particularly among men. Alarms, social calls, and grooming are their primary means of communication. They are also very vocal and expressive. This species is well-known for its active and inquisitive demeanor, much like capuchins.

Ahuizotls are intelligent, circumspect, and fiercely loyal to their home or their kin. The ahuizotl had two ways to lure victims to the water when it hadn't successfully captured a human in a while. It could make a wail like a human infant, luring people to their deaths. Additionally, it can make every frog and fish in the body of water jump to the surface, luring fishermen to the edge of the water.

The IUCN lists the Ahuizotl as Near Threatened, but habitat destruction, competition from native or introduced species, persecution of humans and other animals, and overhunting by both residents and visitors are all putting the species in danger of going extinct. Some are illegally marketed as pets or kept in zoos.

Threats

• Deforestation & habitat fragmentation.

• Capture for illegal pet trade.

• Conflict with farmers (crop raiding).

• Over-tourism leading to dependence and stress.

• Disease transmission—especially respiratory infections and Ebola.

• Human–wildlife conflict and war in some regions.

Conservation measures

• Protected in national parks (e.g., Panama).

• Forest corridor conservation.

• Anti-trafficking enforcement.

The indigenous Ahuizotl is located in Mexico, but it is also an invasive or migratory species that continues to pursue humans, fight crocodiles, and eventually pythons in adjacent countries. Ahuizotls live in a range of environments, such as tropical rainforests, mangroves, and semideciduous forests. Ahuizotl populations are generally greater in areas with evergreen forests and remote, abandoned civilizations.

• Movement Pattern: Not a Migrant

• Individual Type: Nomadic

• Population Trend: Stable

• Population: 2,000

• Locomotion: Amphibious

• Habitat: Taiga; Montane Grasslands and Shrublands; Temperate Coniferous Forests; Temperate Broadleaf and Mixed Forests; Temperate Deciduous Forests, Temperate Grasslands, Savannas, and Shrublands; Subtropical Coniferous Forests; Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests; Subtropical Dry Broadleaf Forests; Subtropical Grasslands, Savannas, and Shrublands; Stone Forest; Tropical Coniferous Forests; Tropical Moist Broadleaf Forests; Tropical Dry Broadleaf Forests; Tropical Grasslands; Tropical Savannas and Shrublands; Mediterranean Forests, Woodlands, and Scrub; Mushroom Forests; Mushroom Fields; Deserts and Xeric Shrublands; Badlands; Flooded Grasslands and Savannas; Swamp; Bayous/Billabongs; Riparian; Wetland; Mangrove Forest; Cold Bamboo Forests; Tropical Bamboo Forests; Air-breathing Coral Reefs; Graveyard Vale; Mountain; Ghost Town.

• Earth: 

  • Extant (Resident): Mexico

  • Extant & Vagrant (Resident): Belize; Costa Rica; El Salvador; Guatemala; Honduras; Nicaragua; Panama; United States (New Mexico; Texas)

• Reinachos: none

• Sawintir: none

The Ahuizotl, a mythical animal that is untamed in Rapunzel's, Wirt and Beatrice's, and our universes, is highly discouraged and prohibited in most nations. These factors include the following: they have complex social and emotional requirements that cannot be satisfied in households; they become uncontrollable as adults or infants; and the pet trade directly contributes to adult poaching and slaughter. The Nahuas and indigenous Mexicans knew that non-indigenous people should be kept away from this species since they were allowed to remove it from the water because it was thought to be too valuable to handle.

1486–1502 AD

The animal was taken as a mascot by the ruler of the same name, Ahuitzotl, who was the eighth Aztec ruler, the Huey Tlatoani of the city of Tenochtitlan, the son of princess Atotoztli II, and was said to be a "friend of the rain gods". Ahuizotl took his name from the animal ahuizotl, which the Aztecs considered to be a legendary creature in its own right rather than a mere mythical representation of the king.

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