snails are mollusc gastropods with a single muscular foot, sensory tentacles, and torsion. they are closely related to octopi, squids, cuttlefish, and clams

what humans consider shitty weather, (muggy & cloudy) snails thrive in. being moisture dependent animals, they haven't got to worry about drying up when the air is chock full of moisture. this is also why they come out at night too, typically it's moist with dew and the sun isn't out to dry them up

certain soecies of giant african land snail (genuses lissachatina and achatina) are illegal to own in florida because of how horrifically invasive they are. i still love them

malaysian trumpet snails have extremely high reproduction rates, so if you overfeed them intending to be gone for a while you might wanna watch out for new egg clutches when you come back. those ****ers just multiply with a snap of their fat little snail fingers

snails have an organ called a radula that is covered in tens of thousands of little "teeth" that they use to rasp into leaves and food. the avg garden snail has 14,000

baby snails eat their eggs once they hatch to promote calcium production and shell upkeep. poor shell maintainence will result in a cracked shell, which is extremely dangerous because most of their organs are in their shells

"gastropod" describes a class of molluscs with organs over the one muscular foot they posess. this includes snails, slugs, and nudibranch. "gastro" means stomach and "pod" means foot, so gastropod means stomach-foot. because their tummy on top of they feet

there is a nudibranch capable of photosynthesis, the leaf sheep. it eats algae and reuses the chloroplasts in its cells in its own body to photosynthezise, and can survive on solar energy alone for months.

a nudibranch called the blue dragon, or glaucus atlanticus, eats and reuses the poison in a jellyfish-like animal called the portugese man-o-war. this makes them extremely dangerous just to touch, as they can kill despite being about the size of dimes.

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