 Learned a LOT about snails today. Fact #1: snails can't absorb color pigments. If they eat colored paper their feces would also be similarly colored. Fact #2: some snails have something called a 'love dart', a thing they store in their bodies (in what is referred to as their 'dart sac') that prior to mating they try and shoot into other snails. The other snail doesn't have a thing to receive this dart(it's analogous to being shot by an arrow), nor is it an organ for sperm transfer. Nuts. 8 comments
  @rek welp. I went from this toot to searching "snails" on youtube and found this wholesome gem: https://youtu.be/j8kh4vyB6mc  @rek I was on a vacation once, went to the sea and was living in the rented house. Every night I'd sit out in the yard until late. And every night I heard crunching behind me, really loud, every time I tried to find where this sound is coming from, but there was nothing visible there, it was driving me mad. And guess what, in the end it turned out to be a little little snail that was eating leaves with a really loud crunch every night. @rek nah, it was some completely alive creeper plant on the wall. I guess it was just very quiet around. But anyway, you can actually hear snail bites, can you imagine haha, I was noticing it some more times later in other places at night.  |
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Snails don't have really good vision, either, so they miss their target half the time. Then it's not like they can shoot another, because it can take a week to make a new one lol...
Apparently, if they can 'impale' their target, it means there's more chances that babies will happen because the dart is coated in mucus (lovely) full of allomone (a pheromone-type compound).