Hello and welcome to Invertecast. I of course am Leah, you guys know me from the YouTube
channel Toranter Leah and I also have Simon and you guys know Simon from his YouTube channel
The Mantis Garden. Hello Simon. Hello Leah. And today we are going to be talking all about snails
which in scientific terms are actually called gastropods and snails themselves the ones with
shells are called shelled gastropods or or and at least that's the family that they're in and they're
also called molluscus molluscus and then you got your separate snail species now genera and then
species yes yes yes yes so I did a bunch of research on snails and gastropods and this is a genus that
includes snails slugs and there was one OC snails so they they're they're all kind of lumped into
this one little family but their phylum that they belong to the mollusca actually also includes
octopus, squids, clams, cuttlefish, and slugs I believe starfish as well. Yes I think yeah yeah
yeah molluscus yeah yeah so pretty pretty interesting stuff. Gastropods are really old
they've been traced all the way back to the Cambrian period about 500 million years ago so
these guys are like even older than like beetles and yeah yeah and me and okay so their shells are
made of a hard structure that like it's a hard structure that over time as the snail grows the
shell grows and it's made of calcium carbonate and it basically just kind of piles on to the already
existing calcium carbonate over time as the snail gets bigger and all that so 80% of all
mollusks are gastropods and there are about 85,000 to 150,000 species of mollusks and so 60,000 of
those are snails that's a huge that's a big number that's pretty big. No they actually know
there's been those this age between 16 and 110,000-ish right well this this this so many that we
haven't found although we still find in the phylum some of this year so that tells you yeah
I mean it could be. Gladly I have some rain forest but we've not even touched really. Oh
absolutely. Yeah I mean we've only explored I believe I read an article that said five percent of
the ocean we've only explored or really know five percent of the oceans here on earth so that leaves
95 percent of the oceans untouched meaning that there's probably a bunch of snails and slugs down
here. Hopefully not a monster. No no if you you you go right ahead. No it's just gonna say I'm just
trying to say hopefully the Loch Ness monster as well but there you go it's just not. Yeah we don't
know it could very well exist and from pictures that I've seen they're pretty convincing so I don't
know Loch Ness might be real. Alrighty so excuse me. Lance snails are really versatile they pretty
much live or Lance snails and sea snails are incredibly versatile they can live in any environment
of pretty much any place in the world you will find snails. I found that snails range in size so
they don't they're not really limited in their size as far as that goes they can be itty bitty
teeny tiny little microscopic things or really big foot long two pound giant snails and that's
that's both terrestrial and sea snails like they are both very large very small obviously it's like
sea snails are. Sorry go ahead. The largest snail is actually a sea snail which is the Australian
trumpet snail but that can weigh I think it's about 17-18 kilograms which is going to be 40
pound something like that. Wow quite a weighty quite a weighty beast really when you think about it
and you can have a cat that's like inside that so yeah that's amazing that's a pretty good sized
snail for sure so I also read on snailworld.com that there are races because snails are famously
really slow they don't they actually only move about 0.5 to 0.7 inches in an hour per second so
that's it's very very slow obviously so Simon I want to pick your brain about this a little bit
are there actual snail races have you seen me? Yes it is the British thing we do
garden snail racing and last year I think it was the world record for the speed was broken by a snail
that they generally a garden snail would move about one centimetre per second which is quite fast
really this guy managed an inch per second so he nailed it it's slow as you can imagine I've seen
where they do it on like a dartboard type you know a circle and the idea is to get to the end
get to the edge first to the centre it's you know put them in the centre and it's the one that gets to
the edge first is a winner and we do have a couple of world champions about like a world series
where nobody else joins in it's snail world championship it's just us really it's just us
so yeah we do our snail racing it's amazing it's just a fun day out but it's you know anybody could
enter you've got kids entering it also there's nobody there training the snails with little
weights or anything just go find a snail and put on the things he wins if you are a fun day out
our snails super food motivated so can you like just put some food you know at the end of the race
and hopefully they they come and get the food or how does it work generally just keep just
go anyway okay as you mentioned food I miss one more like all this piece cucumber it's
loving it actually amazing what species do you have there we're not sure about this species this is actually a it is an African
run snail I do not know because it was a rescue so there was two of them right till it gets full size
sure see if you can identify it but yeah it's one of them it's one of them I've got several
run snails here so I'm not a African run snails and none of them to be honest with you I think we
know the actual species of until they get older because these are pretty much rescues donations or
people just saying I have enough of this do you want this I was like what is it I don't know so we've
ended up with quite quite a few snails that we don't know what they are yet okay but my wife
actually looks at the snails which I think is a big improvement yeah because she's not British
so they tend to eat them rather than yes especially sea snails sea snails tend to be more of a food
item around the world than than the land snails but there are some land snails that get eaten I did
read about that you can actually buy these these guys you can actually buy in teams oh wow on the
European continent but like sorry when we say constant we mean not apart of Britain just the
continent I think oh yeah yeah that's generally that makes sense well we say I saw this in a video
with a day and somebody mentioned it was a very good review in a British thing and when he mentioned
continent we meant the rest of Europe and it confused the hell out of this American yeah we
think of continents we think of the actual you know Europe Asia Africa like this is a baby
oh wow she's so cute she's so small I love that
yeah yeah there we go all right so the mucus that they they secrete actually has a use I always
wondered this I wondered what what the snail trail is and so that mucus actually helps it move along
the surface whatever that it's like crawling along it helps to protect the soft underbelly of
the snail essentially so it basically provides a mucus layer between the snail itself and the
and whatever it's crawling over so if they're sharp rocks or pointy sticks or anything like that
they are not going to get into the stales skin if you will and like enter the snail itself and
the mucus again also helps protect it against infections I also posed a question for myself
because I've been seeing a huge trend in beauty products all around the world that snail mucus is
like an anti-aging anti-wrinkle properties or like it has those properties and so a lot of beauty
products are using snail mucus in their products and I had to know if this was like actually
legitimate so I did a little research and I found on the myo clinic dot org that the snail mucus is
actually good for your skin you heard it here first on invertecas it is legit so the reason that
it is so beneficial to your skin is because it contains antimicrobials and it also has
hydrating properties but it also has that antioxidant properties in it as well and those are what
is said to help kind of like smooth out wrinkles and get rid of those dark spots and blemish
correcting and stuff like that so yeah what what an amazing find like I was honestly super shocked
to find that those the the beauty products with snail mucus in them are legit like they will help you
look younger and have much more pretty skin if you will so I was very like what are your thoughts
on that Simon because I thought it was really just like a gimmick you know well no it's actually
there's actually complete snail farms dedicated and devoted to this this thing because you get the
snails you'll feed them with a high water intake like cucumber and lettuce whatever
and then you'll get them to slime like the permanent mesh thing and that the slime drips down
I'm sure it's disgusting drips down into a tray and that's what the news and give to everybody to put
on their face so you know yeah it's pretty gross pretty it does work I've read quite a lot of papers
on this I should have written a book on snails and so I had to you know you can't just write a book
guessing so I still do a lot of research I mean and one of the things that research was was the
process of the the slight the snail mucus yeah and you know it's a thing it really does work
they proved it in a lab conditions so yeah you know it's pretty amazing yeah because I'm worth it
absolutely you know maybe maybe it's maybe I don't know um but so that's it they're also
um they're also studies showing that the snail mucus is beneficial in the medical field as well
they use it to help heal wounds as well as prevent infections after a surgery so there are definitely
medical uses for snail mucus which is you know I honestly believe that the earth provides pretty
much anything and everything that we could possibly need even even with all of our like
technological and medical advances I still think that mother nature is like pretty much
the end all be all when it comes to our health and well-being so having that respect for like
nature and kind of our environment is is a huge huge deal for me because I love that
um so and snails are living proof that you know hey our mucus makes you younger or at least
look younger um but I have a cucumber here it's holding up again oh so I don't think you can see that
yeah no that's also the thing that life there doesn't let go of the absolute love cucumber
um I don't know why amazing it's not good for them but it's not bad for them any bit um well
cucumber is really uh hydro yeah it's very hydrating uh item but you can do both you can
put the cucumber eye patch on there and it'll benefit the snail slamming you at the same time I suppose
sure you can see some women sat there and the white face you know look pack or whatever it is
you put on your face is I don't know and I probably won't have it right on each eye like this doesn't
mean like like work might be working better than the uh that whatever that stuff is you put on your
face I know a mask is it you call it yeah like well there's so many different kind there's masks
there's you know hydrating cream moisturizer stuff like that yeah it's just pretty in depth you know
at the end of the day just wipe it off the good stuff
so no I I love that you have snails and I I know that do you you have um african
landstails yeah the giant african landstails yeah they're born in my house yeah they're
absolutely beautiful so it's not actually how it's new system but there you go
the people call things out being on these days when they're white and it's it's not it's lucistic
lucistic yeah you know essentially the the absence of like reds and um black yeah yeah
anyway so yeah that's one of them not the biggest ones we've got but you know it's one of the cuties
so it was coming out video definitely I hope this does work because I'm gonna have really
young fingers later so yeah I hope it does it does work it does I mean you should just you know
it's slang to me so it is very slimy I'm not like a huge fan of slimy things you know so I've never
tried the snail uh anti-aging mucous serums for myself uh but now my interest is absolutely peaked
and because I do have a couple little clothes feet happening you know I'm getting older
but let's go ahead and talk about
let's talk about some sea snails because I found a ton of information on sea snails and
it comes come to find out that these sea snails um are seen as a biomarker for like
conservationists and and biologists all around the world so they believe that the presence of a
certain species of snail can indicate the presence of heavy metal pollutants in the oceans or the sea
or in like a freshwater lake even um so what it means to be a biomarker it is essentially
that they are a biological marker so it's two words that kind of got clumped together
and it's a scientific term that means that uh it's something that can be measured to detect a
state of condition of the environment or an organism because obviously as human beings we
also have biomarkers in our bodies one of those being our heartbeat so you can hear the heartbeat
you can measure it you can you know take a calculation how many beats per minute and it
you know certain sounds from the heartbeat and possibly even how many beats per minute you have
is a biomarker for the state of your heart like how it's doing how if it's working too hard or
if maybe you just got done doing like 30 jumping jacks or something so maybe you're you're at a
elevated state of breathing and and heart your heart rate needs to be higher so that you can get
more oxygen to the muscles right um so it's kind of the same idea as for the ocean so biomarkers
are kind of the same idea so an abundance of a certain species of snail in one area of the world
or one area of the ocean can be a biomarker that says okay we've got a lot of a huge presence of
either algae or heavy metals or things like this and that's why all these snails are here so
it's really fascinating because they are learning that snails can be used to essentially like detect
heavy metal pollution or metal pollution especially with mercury so they're finding that snails are
really really sensitive to mercury is this something that you knew of or yeah absolutely um cool one
one of the markers that they're doing is the shell of a snail is built up by things that
be intake so you've got your calcium uh cabinet is what your shell is made up of and that's made up
from things they eat which can be plant materials can be straight on rocks all sorts of things to
get this calcium cabinet yeah there was studies uh regarding pollution on terrestrial snails it was
actually the growth snail i think it was on the stripes snail brand stripes snail and what they did
is test the shell because the shell builds up over time right so they can actually test
what kind of the the pollution was actually going into the shell from what you're saying
building the shell up and it was finding things like cappium in there and mercury in the inside
the actual makeup of the shell so that can tell us whether an area how how polluted an area is
or if it's getting better over time it's getting worse just by testing the shell because obviously
the snail lives over a period of time it's eating right you can have a shell uh that's that's completely
different or as problem with lead uh well maybe not now i don't know if it's in america but we
don't have lead anymore but like oh it's a problem vegetation where uh it's built up area with the
cars for instance vector sales reasons vegetation they're getting uh lead in in in the shells and
all sorts of other things in our cars which loves and loves the different things about cars it's
absolutely awful um but yeah using them as a biomarker is one of the really important things
about snails because it is the amount of time it takes to build up the shell and the different
layers on the shell you can actually do like the kind of the tree in the rings by sure yeah as you
know when the pollution is going up and down so you can engage the time of year whether it's more
polluted in winter or hopefully it's similar summer just be just by testing the snail shell
which i think is amazing the also found the brown lips uh red lit snail really hard work to say
actually um changing its color uh in built up areas it was it was losing the brownness if you
like it's turning yellow more often than not in cities but it won't enroll settings because of
pollution so you know wow times you're doing something wrong so yeah we're not behaving at all
i was also gonna i was also going to sorry about that uh i was gonna mention that the tree rings
because um yeah that's definitely another one of those biomarkers so that's pretty fascinating that
snails are biomarkers pretty much all through you know terrestrial and the oceans and seas so good wow
really good information simon thank you
um so some species so speaking of what snails eat most i believe most snails actually eat
uh like plants and algae so they're herbivores but there are also carnivorous species of snail
um and some snails even eat other snails so that's pretty interesting um but they also
go ahead that's the same road the world's now this is one in uh Hawaii that was introduced
into Hawaii and it's it's decimated the actual Hawaiian population of unique snails because
it's an island obviously it is a lot of the snail species there are quite unique and they're actually
becoming endangered because of the snail that's eating them which is not scary yeah that power
fault was again yeah no most certainly yeah i know that uh so speaking of invasive snails
the i did a bit of research on the giant african land snail um and they actually have been found
to be one of the biggest invasive species in the entire world so they originated obviously in Africa
but um they have basically propagated to like Japan pretty much all like all coat a whole
bunch of parts of Asia pretty much everywhere in the world now you can find african giant
land snails um just because of you know human intervention and that kind of thing we just
kind of introduced this species to all these different continents that they don't really belong
but they are truly a testament to the versatility and just like the the ability ability to adapt
to completely different uh environments to like their native ones so the the african land snail
not only has been introduced to uh you know climates that it's not used to but they thrive
and they become kind of a problem here or in some places a lot of places for you know farmers
and their crops because they do eat plants um and they have actually costed the agriculture industry
i believe it said like 20 million a year let me look for my yeah because they yeah let's see
that's that's generally not the the land snail it's the uh the garden snail the european garden snail
yeah right it's which we got from northern africa so you know we can play in the romans if you want
to go back that far so they you know they used to uh we've got some snails in the uk
that that were brought over by the romans that don't belong here at all i believe it yeah you
know two thousand years later we've got snails around around but we shouldn't have
them but i mean there are benefits to snails as far as like garden like in your garden and stuff
there are benefits for them um anywhere they go essentially they leave that mucus trail
obviously you know that's that's just all snails do that um but they also help to like refresh the
soil so they replenish the nitrogen and the phosphates and in the soil which is actually
good for plants so in essence you know some a lot of snails they can do a lot of damage but they also
do a lot of good so it's kind of weird like it's it's almost like they cancel themselves out
it yeah it is i mean at the end of the day i mean they've got out there um eating dead vegetation
dying vegetation they prefer that they prefer the dead vegetation in vegetation so you've got
something rotting away you prefer to eat the rotting away so it's easier to eat it's as simple as that
that's why yeah things like seedlings when you plant new plants out and your seedlings got a nice
fresh green leaves coming out and they're all like because they're easy to eat yeah well they're not
super huge and established as a plant right yeah yeah yeah so that's that's the fault again humans
get upset about that because there are little seedlings doing more nice stuff pretty flowers of
course snails come along with the old they're just you know you're kind of put them there you're
basically putting things on a plate for them yeah right out plant them you know the most such things
that are already established yeah quite happy to eat the dead plants that fall off it i found another
i found another really fascinating tip of information about snails is that they don't
have ears so they they don't hear at all that is not even a sense that they register
but they do have olfactory so you know a sense of smell and taste yep exactly
the face downwards are there basically then yelves uh-huh and the ones on the top
actually don't bother looking at cartoons because they always put them here but right on the end
is where their eyes are oh if you can even call them eyes we always do so their eyes are on their
antenna right on the end of the antenna is the it's more of a light detector than an eye okay
so they can sort of see where it's dark where it's light they can register by shadows
they can feel vibration oh yeah that's good so you know you back on the table you've got on the
table it'll retract quickly and that simply feels the vibration it thinks what's going on
i don't get it in my house and that's that's that's why it does that but no we can't hear it as no ear
canal no uh brain function for it for hearing at all and they're right that's another one yeah
that's pretty amazing sea snails are also really fascinating as far as their anatomy goes because
they have gills so instead of breathing oxygen like we do and land snails obviously have lungs
and they breathe well they have kind of a per se look go ahead i know you know what you know what
they have they have a single one okay you know like you've got two of everything they like they're
just happy with one so they only have the the the one lung uh maybe to get lucky i'll be able to show you
where it is oh cool because you can see it from
i can't see on this one unfortunately uh oh unfortunately you can't know but generally
i'm sure you right should be it's called this kind of great big piece of cucumber and i can't pull it
off it i don't know that is oh geez but under under this sort of area here okay you've probably seen
it when he picks up the snail but there's a little a little hole that looks like an ear like deep dark
hole and and that is where the air goes in into the lungs so it's not over here it's not happening here
this happening here so it's more it's closer to their face no no i say it's not happening here
oh i see what you're saying okay i'm sorry it's happening more under the shell here
this like a little arrow comes out and it is you can normally see it really well but this one's
got a great big piece of cucumber fighting for the wedding so i'm gonna show you unfortunately i was hoping
that i could be it grabbed the cucumber as i picked it up so i thought but yeah that's that's
that the singular thing that snail anatomy is so weird it's pretty fascinating that they are so
strange because we expect we look at mammals and we expect everything to have like two eyes nose but
you know a couple of legs you know yeah this has got one of these two of these you know snails just
break all the rules they just go no no i don't need to they do they really do i mean generally here
this is where this is where the long nose where it breathes from so it only seems business is
seeing the smelling business goes off here but down here where it breathes it's like why
but yeah they even they even break all the rules of gender because snails are hermaphroditic
meaning they have both genders so instead of just one snail being a female one snail being a male
they are both if if you saw that and i i actually had the um the pleasure of filming it several times
of snails mating and watching the mate is so confusing it can take quite a while
circling each other and and and then this is the weird part out the side of their head
part of their head this is where their genitals are
not where you might expect them this is where their genitals are
no right
yeah no nobody nobody would expect that that is really something how funny they've got something
called a dart pouch and actually they don't only create the the shell out of calcium carbonate
they create little darts that look like terrifying little knives and they have a dart pouch here
above the genitals and they fire the knives at their partner oh wow
what a trip if you if you saw that you filmed it and you were watching it it's like whoa what
does that you know and it's all of a sudden it's got this it's got like a thing sticking out of it
a great like knife if you like yeah it's uh to to encourage their sperm if you will
so it's pretty fascinating that is another that is definitely another thing that I I read that
yeah even though snails are hermaphroditic they still prefer to essentially mate like the old
the old fashion way quote unquote um so yeah one you know one snail will take on the female
and then the other snail takes on the male and so they they do do their thing in the old fashion
style um even though they can they can reproduce without without mating at all so that's pretty
pretty interesting yeah they are a extremely fascinating animal with it everybody knows
about the snail but nobody knows anything about snails right right that's what I found in in my
experience and talks to people like you know oh what do you do oh I do this do that I've got some
snails I keep as pets yeah snails what's good about snails and then you can tell them all these
wonderful interesting facts about snails and they always walk away with oh I didn't know that every
single time there's so much people don't know about this tiny little gastro-bug we have and
like yeah garden and they're just fantastic creatures they're everywhere they're so cool
yeah right I'm I'm actually very excited about this because I learned so much about snails
that you know just as you said you know everybody knows that there are snails that they exist
they're around but nobody knows anything about snails and so uh I did enough research to where I
I'm certainly not an expert on snails but I feel like I have a lot more knowledge than I did before
especially with sea snails and kind of how they absorb oxygen through their gills they
and their gill isn't where you would think it would be like on fish it's like right below their head
you know and that's kind of where we would assume that a sea snail's gills would be but no they're
actually under like right under their tail and under their shell so like if you were to lift up
their shell there's a little um there's a little like opening there that's protected also by a little
flap and so that's I forget what it's called but it's essentially how they absorb oxygen and breathe
underwater yeah it's uh it's actually in the same place as the um as the lung hole should we take a
lung hole there's a new one there we'll call it a lung hole and it's in the same place as it is on a
terrestrial snail okay good good that is in the water and then crawl that and to land them and just go
up I mean that they anymore will keep it for breathing through I mean isopods have done the same thing
definitely yeah because they are well they're crustaceans aren't they well yeah isopods crustaceans
are they are gills they are two vocal gills but when you think about if you look at isopods
you can see how it's come out of the water and changed and adapted to breathe yeah and that's
I should imagine the same thing that with the sails of course right absolutely I mean they
they are just incredibly adaptive and uh versatile so that's some pretty interesting stuff I still I
just honestly I can't get over the uh anti-aging stuff that that turned out to be a real thing
so yeah okay snails also have kind of a long lifespan so in the wild typically uh snails can
live like five to seven years or so but obviously in captivity they can live a lot longer so about
10 to 15 years which is really really cool because again it's due to their adaptive nature so they
can be found all over the world they live a long time and they do have benefits to your soil so
before you remove those snails that you think are eating your plants think about that that you know
you'll have better plants in the future because they're replacing those nitros and nitro yeah
and the phosphorus yeah yeah yeah plants like to eat
that's kind of better yeah but no snails are just absolutely fantastic things I mean yeah
thousands of years ago we were eating them did you know that the first animal that humans
ever heard in was the snail no I didn't know that yeah and the oldest one ever was found in
whales which was a stone thing when they found those uh snail tails where they actually kept them
to grow on to to become wow yeah that was the first animal that we ever corraled if you like
but yeah you'd corral the snails uh for consumption it's weird it's weird that it's here
that the oldest one they found was and yet we find eating snails repulsed now
yeah right I bet as cargo I'm not a big fan I've never I've never tried as cargo
and I don't think I would because they just don't sound appealing to me I don't know
I thought I'd be eating when we've been in botched on that and I a great bowl of snails I should have
said oh it's disgusting now it's yeah I can't do it
they have the large ones but I mean get tiny ones as well
so you just eat them all I couldn't do that I mean
well she says they taste good they taste good all right
I don't care how good they taste I don't know I agree Simon I absolutely agree I hate to say
it's a texture thing for me you know like a lot of people have textual issues with things that we eat
and put into our mouths and I know people who can't they just can't eat tapioca because of the
texture of tapioca like the little chunks I know people who can't you know they won't they don't
like to eat bananas for the same reason that texture to them is just new um so for me it's the slimy
factor hi shady how are you we're coming up on the end here in a minute um but I also wanted
to talk about one last snail species that I was actually really fascinated to find information about
but it's called the Rocky Mountain Snail so a snail that lives here in my hometown of Colorado
um and so they are common all through the Rocky Mountain Range in North America so that it extends
all the way up into Canada and all the way down through I believe parts of Arizona and Texas
so some of the Rocky Mountains go through there although they're not quite as tall if you will
um but in any case uh they are common all around but they're only one of 40 species or varieties
that are native to Colorado so we have 40 varieties of snails that live in Colorado
and they have sinisteral shells and this is the most fascinating thing that I found is that they
have sinisteral shells meaning that their shells actually coil counterclockwise um if they were to
coil clockwise then they would be dextral shells so um yeah I mean that's they're important to our
ecosystem here in Colorado because they help clean up the fallen leaf matter and again they replenish
that soil with the nitrogens and phosphates um so the things that I didn't know even about my own
little state uh and the the snails and the wild snails that live here uh and yeah so it was pretty
pretty interesting that I found that uh their shells here in Colorado are counterclockwise
so they coil counterclockwise um I believe I also read on the same website which was
snailworld.com that the altitude and environment can actually affect which way the snail shell coils
so pretty pretty interesting stuff I mean sinisteral
will mean sinisteral will mean left handed so yeah instead of going to right they're going to left
I mean there are I think it's one in
about one in a million something like let's just say one in a million but it's like a lot
uh left handed snails sinisteral snails bone and batches there was one here a few years ago
they got it in a lab and it it was a sinisteral snail and they got it you know random batches
there was one here a few years ago I can't remember its name it actually I have a name and it was on the
news and they got it in a lab and it was a sinisteral snail and they asked on the national news on the
BBC if anybody else had a sinisteral snail made for it so they match them all and see if they got
like candy babies I'm gonna say like candy because every time I say sinisteral I trip
up mail Tom okay okay there's actually on the BBC asking for if anybody have or anybody finds a
left handed snail let them know so that's that's how rare they are yeah incredibly and and that's
that's all the more reason that made the Rocky Mountains Nails so interesting is because they
are all naturally left-handed so fascinating I'll copy you I'll go with you with the left-handed
yeah it is sinisteral it's pretty and it also kind of for me um and I also read this about the
word that it actually stems directly from uh I believe ancient Romans or no it was Greek
like yeah is it is it Latin uh I should have known that yeah
but yeah it stems directly from Latin when which uh sinister or you know sinister means you know to
be off left handed when he was left handed like me he was sinister you know that's what he thought
and that's where witches were burned because of left-handed things like that yeah absolutely
pretty interesting interesting stuff man
things you could carry on with I mean I try to think what else now you may have missed uh I
think I think you've got it all pretty covered I mean you could go on for days about snails just
oh right I have to skip over a bit of myself I've probably messed a lot of it up because
I'm actually ringing it here um so when you've got when you ask me questions I'll probably mess
some of yours up but I got this plan and I chopped it off of it it's not worth going over it again
you know but yeah so I can understand that but yeah there is uh you could go on for absolute
days about snails yeah what the other inverse for it snails have so many different types
yeah style adaptations that you know you know snails and treetops the snails on the ground
the snails oh yeah snails in fresh water but just mind blowing if you could do an entire
two or three hour program just on the snails oh absolutely absolutely
aquariums you know and it's I I like there's there's so many African land snails one of the
other things that are really annoying is when people say African land snail they think it's one
type of snail I mean oh no it's hundreds hundreds the name itself tells you it's African and it
lives on the land but it's a snail yeah so they're all African land snails basically so you know big
snail and this is why I got this confusion that way I've got on my desk I've got four different
species here on my desk and I don't know what any of them are until they grow until I'm not and
then it's very close to that dissecting them which I'm not going to do obviously no yeah
they're your pets you don't want to do that no by my pet
definitely not worth the risk yeah
is that worth the beating
and you've come to work I like the web I like the eggs you know it's just so much better I could
watch long or night about it so I better shut up I'll shut up no you're fine I mean I honestly I
really enjoyed learning about them the more I learned about them the more I did research the
more I was like wait a minute these guys are really really cool this is going to be a fun episode
for sure because snails are definitely really unique and just fascinating creatures and the fact
that they've been around for 500 million some odd years like that's very impressive so yeah go get
you some snail anti-eating stuff recently they found I think this is either this year or last year
they found a 99 million year old snail fossil in amber and normally they only get the shell
right from that the the fork thing that you can take it out in the app which is which is awesome
that was that was like the best year I share with you in Myanmar I think it was Myanmar
there's lots of places that are closed off you know like for instance like North Korea
if you take North Korea I wonder how things are in North Korea that we don't know about
oh same with uh yeah Thailand and Myanmar like you were saying uh they're discovering new species of
tarantulas there all the time like it's it's pretty fascinating so absolutely okay well
I think uh we'll have to we'll have to delve back into the world of snails for another episode
sometime in the future but I think we've come across our shameless plug
moment at the end of our episode Simon do you have any shameless plugs this week anything new going on
buy my book on snails yeah I you know I definitely think that would be a good idea we'll you know
if you have a link for it we can put the link down in the description of this video once we post it
and it's up and live which will be as soon as the stream is over but it'll be ready
but yeah buy Simon's book on snails that would be amazing then you'll get a whole lot more
information about snails a lot more than what we could cover in this short hour yeah
anything else
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scorpions which they are in the family of arachnids so definitely something that I love obviously but
I don't know a ton about scorpions so I'm excited I get to learn more about scorpions as well so yeah
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we call it a podcast but really we're kind of a live stream but now we are finally an official
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have a chance to watch us live on our stream that is totally okay you can find us in podcast and audio
form on a whole bunch of them I'll have to find out exactly which ones they are and I'll let you
guys know that but otherwise that's fantastic and I hope you guys enjoy that um and I think so yeah
next week we're going to be talking about scorpions and I've got a couple of special guests coming up
as well a couple that are one that is local here to me in the states to Colorado so we're going to
have eight legged adventures as a guest and we're going to interview them on the 2nd of December
so you don't want to miss that and then we're also going to have a fatty pancake as a guest I believe
on the 25th of November so this month um and so we're we're definitely looking forward to
having those two special guests and I hope you guys can join us and bring a couple of your own
extra questions for them um because they are excited to be on our show but that's all I've got
so I guess it's bye bye thank you Simon as always thank you so much for being with us
and talking about snails with me and joining me on this learning adventure I appreciate it
and we will see you guys next week at the same time same place