Slime; you're on candid camera!

David and Goliath sliming it out - this is icky in the extreme, and yet (to me at least) a fascinating peak into life in the 'slow' lane.



On one of my visits to Thailand, I was on a river boat and got talking to some monks. A little insect was buzzing around me and I casually reached out and poked a its eye out ( it didn't recover from its injuries).

The monks were horrified and asked my why I had taken a life. "Because it was annoying me!"



The telling off they gave me was gentle, kind, loving and profoundly affected me. So much so that, to this day, I won't even use slug pellets!



On average Snails have 25,600 teeth in the form of a ribbon.



Snails can have hundreds to thousands teeth - on average 25,600! Most mollusk groups, including snails (gastropods), have a set of teeth that is shaped like a wavy ribbon called a radula ribbon.



Bivalves such as clams, scallops, oysters are the exception and do not have this structure. There can be hundreds of rows of teeth and several different tooth types in one snail or very few rows with a single tooth in each.



As the teeth get worn they are continuously replaced by developing teeth, much in the same way that a shark's teeth are.



These teeth can be used for scraping food such as algae, however, there are snails that have evolved teeth that serve as harpoons which are hollow and used to inject venom when catching prey such as fish.



Source(s):

http://invertebrates.si.edu/gastropods.h…





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