Table 1.

Median air volumes (variance in parentheses) in lungs and mouth before anaesthesia and after handling in anaesthesia for eight juvenile axolotls and 11 adult axolotls.

	awake		anaesthetized and post handling
	lungs (ml)	mouth (ml)	total (ml)	lungs (ml)	mouth (ml)	total (ml)
juvenile	2.71 (2.22)	0	2.71 (2.22)	1.77 (1.06)	0 (0.01)	1.80 (1.10)
adult	2.19 (0.48)	0	2.19 (0.51)	0.16 (0.32)	0.06 (0.01)	0.29 (0.41)