The baby fish, scientifically known as the giant salamander, belongs to amphibians. Although called the baby fish, it is not a fish, but the largest amphibian. The body length is generally one to two meters, the weight is generally about 20 to 30 kilograms, and the maximum can grow to more than 100 pounds.
The living environment is relatively unique, generally only in the rapid flow, cool water quality, and water grass lush stone crevices and caves in the mountain streams, rivers and lakes to live, sometimes in the shore of the tree roots or on the trunk of the lodging, and choose to roost in the cave at the mouth of the backflow beach. Its diet includes small fish, frogs, crabs, snakes, shrimp, earthworms, and aquatic insects.
The number of wild giant salamanders in China is extremely rare, and the giant salamander is widely distributed in China, such as the Yellow River, the Yangtze River and the middle and lower reaches of the Pearl River and their tributaries, as well as In Hebei, Henan, Shanxi, Shaanxi, Gansu, Qinghai, Sichuan, Guizhou, Hubei, Hunan, Anhui, Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Jiangxi, Fujian and other regions have been distributed.
It is also one of the oldest living fossils in existence today, and was listed as a national second-level key protected wild animal in the Wildlife Protection Law of the People's Republic of China in 1988.