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Hello and welcome to Invertecast. I of course am Leah, you guys know me from the YouTube

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channel Toranter Leah and I also have Simon and you guys know Simon from his YouTube channel

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The Mantis Garden. Hello Simon. Hello Leah. And today we are going to be talking all about snails

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which in scientific terms are actually called gastropods and snails themselves the ones with

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shells are called shelled gastropods or or and at least that's the family that they're in and they're

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also called molluscus molluscus and then you got your separate snail species now genera and then

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species yes yes yes yes so I did a bunch of research on snails and gastropods and this is a genus that

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includes snails slugs and there was one OC snails so they they're they're all kind of lumped into

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this one little family but their phylum that they belong to the mollusca actually also includes

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octopus, squids, clams, cuttlefish, and slugs I believe starfish as well. Yes I think yeah yeah

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yeah molluscus yeah yeah so pretty pretty interesting stuff. Gastropods are really old

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they've been traced all the way back to the Cambrian period about 500 million years ago so

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these guys are like even older than like beetles and yeah yeah and me and okay so their shells are

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made of a hard structure that like it's a hard structure that over time as the snail grows the

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shell grows and it's made of calcium carbonate and it basically just kind of piles on to the already

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existing calcium carbonate over time as the snail gets bigger and all that so 80% of all

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mollusks are gastropods and there are about 85,000 to 150,000 species of mollusks and so 60,000 of

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those are snails that's a huge that's a big number that's pretty big. No they actually know

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there's been those this age between 16 and 110,000-ish right well this this this so many that we

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haven't found although we still find in the phylum some of this year so that tells you yeah

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I mean it could be. Gladly I have some rain forest but we've not even touched really. Oh

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absolutely. Yeah I mean we've only explored I believe I read an article that said five percent of

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the ocean we've only explored or really know five percent of the oceans here on earth so that leaves

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95 percent of the oceans untouched meaning that there's probably a bunch of snails and slugs down

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here. Hopefully not a monster. No no if you you you go right ahead. No it's just gonna say I'm just

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trying to say hopefully the Loch Ness monster as well but there you go it's just not. Yeah we don't

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know it could very well exist and from pictures that I've seen they're pretty convincing so I don't

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know Loch Ness might be real. Alrighty so excuse me. Lance snails are really versatile they pretty

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much live or Lance snails and sea snails are incredibly versatile they can live in any environment

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of pretty much any place in the world you will find snails. I found that snails range in size so

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they don't they're not really limited in their size as far as that goes they can be itty bitty

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teeny tiny little microscopic things or really big foot long two pound giant snails and that's

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that's both terrestrial and sea snails like they are both very large very small obviously it's like

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sea snails are. Sorry go ahead. The largest snail is actually a sea snail which is the Australian

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trumpet snail but that can weigh I think it's about 17-18 kilograms which is going to be 40

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pound something like that. Wow quite a weighty quite a weighty beast really when you think about it

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and you can have a cat that's like inside that so yeah that's amazing that's a pretty good sized

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snail for sure so I also read on snailworld.com that there are races because snails are famously

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really slow they don't they actually only move about 0.5 to 0.7 inches in an hour per second so

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that's it's very very slow obviously so Simon I want to pick your brain about this a little bit

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are there actual snail races have you seen me? Yes it is the British thing we do

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garden snail racing and last year I think it was the world record for the speed was broken by a snail

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that they generally a garden snail would move about one centimetre per second which is quite fast

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really this guy managed an inch per second so he nailed it it's slow as you can imagine I've seen

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where they do it on like a dartboard type you know a circle and the idea is to get to the end

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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

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the edge first is a winner and we do have a couple of world champions about like a world series

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where nobody else joins in it's snail world championship it's just us really it's just us

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so yeah we do our snail racing it's amazing it's just a fun day out but it's you know anybody could

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enter you've got kids entering it also there's nobody there training the snails with little

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weights or anything just go find a snail and put on the things he wins if you are a fun day out

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our snails super food motivated so can you like just put some food you know at the end of the race

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and hopefully they they come and get the food or how does it work generally just keep just

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go anyway okay as you mentioned food I miss one more like all this piece cucumber it's

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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

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run snail I do not know because it was a rescue so there was two of them right till it gets full size

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sure see if you can identify it but yeah it's one of them it's one of them I've got several

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run snails here so I'm not a African run snails and none of them to be honest with you I think we

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know the actual species of until they get older because these are pretty much rescues donations or

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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

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ended up with quite quite a few snails that we don't know what they are yet okay but my wife

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actually looks at the snails which I think is a big improvement yeah because she's not British

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so they tend to eat them rather than yes especially sea snails sea snails tend to be more of a food

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item around the world than than the land snails but there are some land snails that get eaten I did

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read about that you can actually buy these these guys you can actually buy in teams oh wow on the

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European continent but like sorry when we say constant we mean not apart of Britain just the

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continent I think oh yeah yeah that's generally that makes sense well we say I saw this in a video

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with a day and somebody mentioned it was a very good review in a British thing and when he mentioned

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continent we meant the rest of Europe and it confused the hell out of this American yeah we

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think of continents we think of the actual you know Europe Asia Africa like this is a baby

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oh wow she's so cute she's so small I love that

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yeah yeah there we go all right so the mucus that they they secrete actually has a use I always

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wondered this I wondered what what the snail trail is and so that mucus actually helps it move along

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the surface whatever that it's like crawling along it helps to protect the soft underbelly of

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the snail essentially so it basically provides a mucus layer between the snail itself and the

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and whatever it's crawling over so if they're sharp rocks or pointy sticks or anything like that

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they are not going to get into the stales skin if you will and like enter the snail itself and

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the mucus again also helps protect it against infections I also posed a question for myself

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because I've been seeing a huge trend in beauty products all around the world that snail mucus is

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like an anti-aging anti-wrinkle properties or like it has those properties and so a lot of beauty

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products are using snail mucus in their products and I had to know if this was like actually

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legitimate so I did a little research and I found on the myo clinic dot org that the snail mucus is

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actually good for your skin you heard it here first on invertecas it is legit so the reason that

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it is so beneficial to your skin is because it contains antimicrobials and it also has

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hydrating properties but it also has that antioxidant properties in it as well and those are what

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is said to help kind of like smooth out wrinkles and get rid of those dark spots and blemish

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correcting and stuff like that so yeah what what an amazing find like I was honestly super shocked

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to find that those the the beauty products with snail mucus in them are legit like they will help you

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look younger and have much more pretty skin if you will so I was very like what are your thoughts

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on that Simon because I thought it was really just like a gimmick you know well no it's actually

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there's actually complete snail farms dedicated and devoted to this this thing because you get the

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snails you'll feed them with a high water intake like cucumber and lettuce whatever

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and then you'll get them to slime like the permanent mesh thing and that the slime drips down

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I'm sure it's disgusting drips down into a tray and that's what the news and give to everybody to put

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on their face so you know yeah it's pretty gross pretty it does work I've read quite a lot of papers

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on this I should have written a book on snails and so I had to you know you can't just write a book

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guessing so I still do a lot of research I mean and one of the things that research was was the

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process of the the slight the snail mucus yeah and you know it's a thing it really does work

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they proved it in a lab conditions so yeah you know it's pretty amazing yeah because I'm worth it

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absolutely you know maybe maybe it's maybe I don't know um but so that's it they're also

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um they're also studies showing that the snail mucus is beneficial in the medical field as well

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they use it to help heal wounds as well as prevent infections after a surgery so there are definitely

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medical uses for snail mucus which is you know I honestly believe that the earth provides pretty

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much anything and everything that we could possibly need even even with all of our like

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technological and medical advances I still think that mother nature is like pretty much

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the end all be all when it comes to our health and well-being so having that respect for like

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nature and kind of our environment is is a huge huge deal for me because I love that

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um so and snails are living proof that you know hey our mucus makes you younger or at least

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look younger um but I have a cucumber here it's holding up again oh so I don't think you can see that

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yeah no that's also the thing that life there doesn't let go of the absolute love cucumber

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um I don't know why amazing it's not good for them but it's not bad for them any bit um well

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cucumber is really uh hydro yeah it's very hydrating uh item but you can do both you can

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put the cucumber eye patch on there and it'll benefit the snail slamming you at the same time I suppose

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sure you can see some women sat there and the white face you know look pack or whatever it is

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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

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mean like like work might be working better than the uh that whatever that stuff is you put on your

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face I know a mask is it you call it yeah like well there's so many different kind there's masks

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there's you know hydrating cream moisturizer stuff like that yeah it's just pretty in depth you know

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at the end of the day just wipe it off the good stuff

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so no I I love that you have snails and I I know that do you you have um african

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landstails yeah the giant african landstails yeah they're born in my house yeah they're

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absolutely beautiful so it's not actually how it's new system but there you go

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the people call things out being on these days when they're white and it's it's not it's lucistic

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lucistic yeah you know essentially the the absence of like reds and um black yeah yeah

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anyway so yeah that's one of them not the biggest ones we've got but you know it's one of the cuties

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so it was coming out video definitely I hope this does work because I'm gonna have really

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young fingers later so yeah I hope it does it does work it does I mean you should just you know

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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

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tried the snail uh anti-aging mucous serums for myself uh but now my interest is absolutely peaked

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and because I do have a couple little clothes feet happening you know I'm getting older

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but let's go ahead and talk about

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let's talk about some sea snails because I found a ton of information on sea snails and

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it comes come to find out that these sea snails um are seen as a biomarker for like

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conservationists and and biologists all around the world so they believe that the presence of a

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certain species of snail can indicate the presence of heavy metal pollutants in the oceans or the sea

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or in like a freshwater lake even um so what it means to be a biomarker it is essentially

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that they are a biological marker so it's two words that kind of got clumped together

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and it's a scientific term that means that uh it's something that can be measured to detect a

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state of condition of the environment or an organism because obviously as human beings we

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also have biomarkers in our bodies one of those being our heartbeat so you can hear the heartbeat

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you can measure it you can you know take a calculation how many beats per minute and it

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you know certain sounds from the heartbeat and possibly even how many beats per minute you have

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is a biomarker for the state of your heart like how it's doing how if it's working too hard or

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if maybe you just got done doing like 30 jumping jacks or something so maybe you're you're at a

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elevated state of breathing and and heart your heart rate needs to be higher so that you can get

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more oxygen to the muscles right um so it's kind of the same idea as for the ocean so biomarkers

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are kind of the same idea so an abundance of a certain species of snail in one area of the world

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or one area of the ocean can be a biomarker that says okay we've got a lot of a huge presence of

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either algae or heavy metals or things like this and that's why all these snails are here so

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it's really fascinating because they are learning that snails can be used to essentially like detect

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heavy metal pollution or metal pollution especially with mercury so they're finding that snails are

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really really sensitive to mercury is this something that you knew of or yeah absolutely um cool one

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one of the markers that they're doing is the shell of a snail is built up by things that

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be intake so you've got your calcium uh cabinet is what your shell is made up of and that's made up

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from things they eat which can be plant materials can be straight on rocks all sorts of things to

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get this calcium cabinet yeah there was studies uh regarding pollution on terrestrial snails it was

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actually the growth snail i think it was on the stripes snail brand stripes snail and what they did

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is test the shell because the shell builds up over time right so they can actually test

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what kind of the the pollution was actually going into the shell from what you're saying

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building the shell up and it was finding things like cappium in there and mercury in the inside

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the actual makeup of the shell so that can tell us whether an area how how polluted an area is

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or if it's getting better over time it's getting worse just by testing the shell because obviously

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the snail lives over a period of time it's eating right you can have a shell uh that's that's completely

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different or as problem with lead uh well maybe not now i don't know if it's in america but we

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don't have lead anymore but like oh it's a problem vegetation where uh it's built up area with the

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cars for instance vector sales reasons vegetation they're getting uh lead in in in the shells and

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all sorts of other things in our cars which loves and loves the different things about cars it's

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absolutely awful um but yeah using them as a biomarker is one of the really important things

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about snails because it is the amount of time it takes to build up the shell and the different

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layers on the shell you can actually do like the kind of the tree in the rings by sure yeah as you

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know when the pollution is going up and down so you can engage the time of year whether it's more

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polluted in winter or hopefully it's similar summer just be just by testing the snail shell

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which i think is amazing the also found the brown lips uh red lit snail really hard work to say

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actually um changing its color uh in built up areas it was it was losing the brownness if you

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like it's turning yellow more often than not in cities but it won't enroll settings because of

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pollution so you know wow times you're doing something wrong so yeah we're not behaving at all

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i was also gonna i was also going to sorry about that uh i was gonna mention that the tree rings

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because um yeah that's definitely another one of those biomarkers so that's pretty fascinating that

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snails are biomarkers pretty much all through you know terrestrial and the oceans and seas so good wow

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really good information simon thank you

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um so some species so speaking of what snails eat most i believe most snails actually eat

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uh like plants and algae so they're herbivores but there are also carnivorous species of snail

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um and some snails even eat other snails so that's pretty interesting um but they also

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go ahead that's the same road the world's now this is one in uh Hawaii that was introduced

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into Hawaii and it's it's decimated the actual Hawaiian population of unique snails because

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it's an island obviously it is a lot of the snail species there are quite unique and they're actually

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becoming endangered because of the snail that's eating them which is not scary yeah that power

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fault was again yeah no most certainly yeah i know that uh so speaking of invasive snails

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the i did a bit of research on the giant african land snail um and they actually have been found

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to be one of the biggest invasive species in the entire world so they originated obviously in Africa

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but um they have basically propagated to like Japan pretty much all like all coat a whole

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bunch of parts of Asia pretty much everywhere in the world now you can find african giant

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land snails um just because of you know human intervention and that kind of thing we just

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kind of introduced this species to all these different continents that they don't really belong

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but they are truly a testament to the versatility and just like the the ability ability to adapt

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to completely different uh environments to like their native ones so the the african land snail

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not only has been introduced to uh you know climates that it's not used to but they thrive

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and they become kind of a problem here or in some places a lot of places for you know farmers

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and their crops because they do eat plants um and they have actually costed the agriculture industry

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i believe it said like 20 million a year let me look for my yeah because they yeah let's see

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that's that's generally not the the land snail it's the uh the garden snail the european garden snail

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yeah right it's which we got from northern africa so you know we can play in the romans if you want

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to go back that far so they you know they used to uh we've got some snails in the uk

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that that were brought over by the romans that don't belong here at all i believe it yeah you

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know two thousand years later we've got snails around around but we shouldn't have

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them but i mean there are benefits to snails as far as like garden like in your garden and stuff

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there are benefits for them um anywhere they go essentially they leave that mucus trail

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obviously you know that's that's just all snails do that um but they also help to like refresh the

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soil so they replenish the nitrogen and the phosphates and in the soil which is actually

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good for plants so in essence you know some a lot of snails they can do a lot of damage but they also

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do a lot of good so it's kind of weird like it's it's almost like they cancel themselves out

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it yeah it is i mean at the end of the day i mean they've got out there um eating dead vegetation

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dying vegetation they prefer that they prefer the dead vegetation in vegetation so you've got

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something rotting away you prefer to eat the rotting away so it's easier to eat it's as simple as that

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that's why yeah things like seedlings when you plant new plants out and your seedlings got a nice

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fresh green leaves coming out and they're all like because they're easy to eat yeah well they're not

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super huge and established as a plant right yeah yeah yeah so that's that's the fault again humans

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get upset about that because there are little seedlings doing more nice stuff pretty flowers of

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course snails come along with the old they're just you know you're kind of put them there you're

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basically putting things on a plate for them yeah right out plant them you know the most such things

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that are already established yeah quite happy to eat the dead plants that fall off it i found another

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i found another really fascinating tip of information about snails is that they don't

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have ears so they they don't hear at all that is not even a sense that they register

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but they do have olfactory so you know a sense of smell and taste yep exactly

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the face downwards are there basically then yelves uh-huh and the ones on the top

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actually don't bother looking at cartoons because they always put them here but right on the end

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is where their eyes are oh if you can even call them eyes we always do so their eyes are on their

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antenna right on the end of the antenna is the it's more of a light detector than an eye okay

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so they can sort of see where it's dark where it's light they can register by shadows

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they can feel vibration oh yeah that's good so you know you back on the table you've got on the

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table it'll retract quickly and that simply feels the vibration it thinks what's going on

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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

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canal no uh brain function for it for hearing at all and they're right that's another one yeah

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that's pretty amazing sea snails are also really fascinating as far as their anatomy goes because

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they have gills so instead of breathing oxygen like we do and land snails obviously have lungs

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and they breathe well they have kind of a per se look go ahead i know you know what you know what

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they have they have a single one okay you know like you've got two of everything they like they're

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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

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where it is oh cool because you can see it from

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i can't see on this one unfortunately uh oh unfortunately you can't know but generally

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i'm sure you right should be it's called this kind of great big piece of cucumber and i can't pull it

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off it i don't know that is oh geez but under under this sort of area here okay you've probably seen

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it when he picks up the snail but there's a little a little hole that looks like an ear like deep dark

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hole and and that is where the air goes in into the lungs so it's not over here it's not happening here

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this happening here so it's more it's closer to their face no no i say it's not happening here

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oh i see what you're saying okay i'm sorry it's happening more under the shell here

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this like a little arrow comes out and it is you can normally see it really well but this one's

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got a great big piece of cucumber fighting for the wedding so i'm gonna show you unfortunately i was hoping

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that i could be it grabbed the cucumber as i picked it up so i thought but yeah that's that's

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that the singular thing that snail anatomy is so weird it's pretty fascinating that they are so

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strange because we expect we look at mammals and we expect everything to have like two eyes nose but

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you know a couple of legs you know yeah this has got one of these two of these you know snails just

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break all the rules they just go no no i don't need to they do they really do i mean generally here

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this is where this is where the long nose where it breathes from so it only seems business is

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seeing the smelling business goes off here but down here where it breathes it's like why

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but yeah they even they even break all the rules of gender because snails are hermaphroditic

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meaning they have both genders so instead of just one snail being a female one snail being a male

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they are both if if you saw that and i i actually had the um the pleasure of filming it several times

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of snails mating and watching the mate is so confusing it can take quite a while

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circling each other and and and then this is the weird part out the side of their head

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part of their head this is where their genitals are

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not where you might expect them this is where their genitals are

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no right

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yeah no nobody nobody would expect that that is really something how funny they've got something

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called a dart pouch and actually they don't only create the the shell out of calcium carbonate

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they create little darts that look like terrifying little knives and they have a dart pouch here

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above the genitals and they fire the knives at their partner oh wow

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what a trip if you if you saw that you filmed it and you were watching it it's like whoa what

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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

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a great like knife if you like yeah it's uh to to encourage their sperm if you will

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so it's pretty fascinating that is another that is definitely another thing that I I read that

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yeah even though snails are hermaphroditic they still prefer to essentially mate like the old

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the old fashion way quote unquote um so yeah one you know one snail will take on the female

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and then the other snail takes on the male and so they they do do their thing in the old fashion

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style um even though they can they can reproduce without without mating at all so that's pretty

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pretty interesting yeah they are a extremely fascinating animal with it everybody knows

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about the snail but nobody knows anything about snails right right that's what I found in in my

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experience and talks to people like you know oh what do you do oh I do this do that I've got some

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snails I keep as pets yeah snails what's good about snails and then you can tell them all these

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wonderful interesting facts about snails and they always walk away with oh I didn't know that every

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single time there's so much people don't know about this tiny little gastro-bug we have and

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like yeah garden and they're just fantastic creatures they're everywhere they're so cool

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yeah right I'm I'm actually very excited about this because I learned so much about snails

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that you know just as you said you know everybody knows that there are snails that they exist

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they're around but nobody knows anything about snails and so uh I did enough research to where I

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I'm certainly not an expert on snails but I feel like I have a lot more knowledge than I did before

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especially with sea snails and kind of how they absorb oxygen through their gills they

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and their gill isn't where you would think it would be like on fish it's like right below their head

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you know and that's kind of where we would assume that a sea snail's gills would be but no they're

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actually under like right under their tail and under their shell so like if you were to lift up

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their shell there's a little um there's a little like opening there that's protected also by a little

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flap and so that's I forget what it's called but it's essentially how they absorb oxygen and breathe

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underwater yeah it's uh it's actually in the same place as the um as the lung hole should we take a

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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

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terrestrial snail okay good good that is in the water and then crawl that and to land them and just go

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up I mean that they anymore will keep it for breathing through I mean isopods have done the same thing

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definitely yeah because they are well they're crustaceans aren't they well yeah isopods crustaceans

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are they are gills they are two vocal gills but when you think about if you look at isopods

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you can see how it's come out of the water and changed and adapted to breathe yeah and that's

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I should imagine the same thing that with the sails of course right absolutely I mean they

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they are just incredibly adaptive and uh versatile so that's some pretty interesting stuff I still I

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just honestly I can't get over the uh anti-aging stuff that that turned out to be a real thing

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so yeah okay snails also have kind of a long lifespan so in the wild typically uh snails can

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live like five to seven years or so but obviously in captivity they can live a lot longer so about

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10 to 15 years which is really really cool because again it's due to their adaptive nature so they

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can be found all over the world they live a long time and they do have benefits to your soil so

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before you remove those snails that you think are eating your plants think about that that you know

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you'll have better plants in the future because they're replacing those nitros and nitro yeah

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and the phosphorus yeah yeah yeah plants like to eat

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that's kind of better yeah but no snails are just absolutely fantastic things I mean yeah

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thousands of years ago we were eating them did you know that the first animal that humans

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ever heard in was the snail no I didn't know that yeah and the oldest one ever was found in

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whales which was a stone thing when they found those uh snail tails where they actually kept them

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to grow on to to become wow yeah that was the first animal that we ever corraled if you like

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but yeah you'd corral the snails uh for consumption it's weird it's weird that it's here

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that the oldest one they found was and yet we find eating snails repulsed now

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yeah right I bet as cargo I'm not a big fan I've never I've never tried as cargo

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and I don't think I would because they just don't sound appealing to me I don't know

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I thought I'd be eating when we've been in botched on that and I a great bowl of snails I should have

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said oh it's disgusting now it's yeah I can't do it

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they have the large ones but I mean get tiny ones as well

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so you just eat them all I couldn't do that I mean

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well she says they taste good they taste good all right

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I don't care how good they taste I don't know I agree Simon I absolutely agree I hate to say

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it's a texture thing for me you know like a lot of people have textual issues with things that we eat

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and put into our mouths and I know people who can't they just can't eat tapioca because of the

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texture of tapioca like the little chunks I know people who can't you know they won't they don't

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like to eat bananas for the same reason that texture to them is just new um so for me it's the slimy

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factor hi shady how are you we're coming up on the end here in a minute um but I also wanted

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to talk about one last snail species that I was actually really fascinated to find information about

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but it's called the Rocky Mountain Snail so a snail that lives here in my hometown of Colorado

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um and so they are common all through the Rocky Mountain Range in North America so that it extends

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all the way up into Canada and all the way down through I believe parts of Arizona and Texas

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so some of the Rocky Mountains go through there although they're not quite as tall if you will

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um but in any case uh they are common all around but they're only one of 40 species or varieties

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that are native to Colorado so we have 40 varieties of snails that live in Colorado

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and they have sinisteral shells and this is the most fascinating thing that I found is that they

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have sinisteral shells meaning that their shells actually coil counterclockwise um if they were to

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coil clockwise then they would be dextral shells so um yeah I mean that's they're important to our

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ecosystem here in Colorado because they help clean up the fallen leaf matter and again they replenish

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that soil with the nitrogens and phosphates um so the things that I didn't know even about my own

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little state uh and the the snails and the wild snails that live here uh and yeah so it was pretty

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pretty interesting that I found that uh their shells here in Colorado are counterclockwise

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so they coil counterclockwise um I believe I also read on the same website which was

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snailworld.com that the altitude and environment can actually affect which way the snail shell coils

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so pretty pretty interesting stuff I mean sinisteral

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will mean sinisteral will mean left handed so yeah instead of going to right they're going to left

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I mean there are I think it's one in

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about one in a million something like let's just say one in a million but it's like a lot

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uh left handed snails sinisteral snails bone and batches there was one here a few years ago

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they got it in a lab and it it was a sinisteral snail and they got it you know random batches

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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

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news and they got it in a lab and it was a sinisteral snail and they asked on the national news on the

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BBC if anybody else had a sinisteral snail made for it so they match them all and see if they got

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like candy babies I'm gonna say like candy because every time I say sinisteral I trip

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up mail Tom okay okay there's actually on the BBC asking for if anybody have or anybody finds a

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left handed snail let them know so that's that's how rare they are yeah incredibly and and that's

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that's all the more reason that made the Rocky Mountains Nails so interesting is because they

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are all naturally left-handed so fascinating I'll copy you I'll go with you with the left-handed

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yeah it is sinisteral it's pretty and it also kind of for me um and I also read this about the

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word that it actually stems directly from uh I believe ancient Romans or no it was Greek

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like yeah is it is it Latin uh I should have known that yeah

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but yeah it stems directly from Latin when which uh sinister or you know sinister means you know to

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be off left handed when he was left handed like me he was sinister you know that's what he thought

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and that's where witches were burned because of left-handed things like that yeah absolutely

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pretty interesting interesting stuff man

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things you could carry on with I mean I try to think what else now you may have missed uh I

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think I think you've got it all pretty covered I mean you could go on for days about snails just

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oh right I have to skip over a bit of myself I've probably messed a lot of it up because

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I'm actually ringing it here um so when you've got when you ask me questions I'll probably mess

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some of yours up but I got this plan and I chopped it off of it it's not worth going over it again

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you know but yeah so I can understand that but yeah there is uh you could go on for absolute

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days about snails yeah what the other inverse for it snails have so many different types

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yeah style adaptations that you know you know snails and treetops the snails on the ground

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the snails oh yeah snails in fresh water but just mind blowing if you could do an entire

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two or three hour program just on the snails oh absolutely absolutely

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aquariums you know and it's I I like there's there's so many African land snails one of the

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other things that are really annoying is when people say African land snail they think it's one

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type of snail I mean oh no it's hundreds hundreds the name itself tells you it's African and it

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lives on the land but it's a snail yeah so they're all African land snails basically so you know big

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snail and this is why I got this confusion that way I've got on my desk I've got four different

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species here on my desk and I don't know what any of them are until they grow until I'm not and

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then it's very close to that dissecting them which I'm not going to do obviously no yeah

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they're your pets you don't want to do that no by my pet

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definitely not worth the risk yeah

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is that worth the beating

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and you've come to work I like the web I like the eggs you know it's just so much better I could

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watch long or night about it so I better shut up I'll shut up no you're fine I mean I honestly I

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really enjoyed learning about them the more I learned about them the more I did research the

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more I was like wait a minute these guys are really really cool this is going to be a fun episode

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for sure because snails are definitely really unique and just fascinating creatures and the fact

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that they've been around for 500 million some odd years like that's very impressive so yeah go get

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you some snail anti-eating stuff recently they found I think this is either this year or last year

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they found a 99 million year old snail fossil in amber and normally they only get the shell

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right from that the the fork thing that you can take it out in the app which is which is awesome

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that was that was like the best year I share with you in Myanmar I think it was Myanmar

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there's lots of places that are closed off you know like for instance like North Korea

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if you take North Korea I wonder how things are in North Korea that we don't know about

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oh same with uh yeah Thailand and Myanmar like you were saying uh they're discovering new species of

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tarantulas there all the time like it's it's pretty fascinating so absolutely okay well

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I think uh we'll have to we'll have to delve back into the world of snails for another episode

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sometime in the future but I think we've come across our shameless plug

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moment at the end of our episode Simon do you have any shameless plugs this week anything new going on

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buy my book on snails yeah I you know I definitely think that would be a good idea we'll you know

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if you have a link for it we can put the link down in the description of this video once we post it

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and it's up and live which will be as soon as the stream is over but it'll be ready

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but yeah buy Simon's book on snails that would be amazing then you'll get a whole lot more

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information about snails a lot more than what we could cover in this short hour yeah

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anything else

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no save us always come grab this channel and uh if you want to see us talk about other things

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make a suggestion in the comments below uh give us a sub watch out for any shots we

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pop up and we'll let you know what's going on next week which is scorpions we're gonna talk about

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scorpions which they are in the family of arachnids so definitely something that I love obviously but

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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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make sure to like and subscribe and if you have any comments absolutely put them down below

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um I'm gonna go ahead and run with my shameless plug super quick I found I finally got our podcast

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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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podcast you can find us on pretty much all of the audio streaming services so Spotify

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um iHeart radio is one here in the states I don't know if that's over in the UK but you can find

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us on that um rss platforms pretty much anywhere you find your podcast you can find us so if you

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don't have a chance to watch us live on this channel here oh thank you Lilliana if you don't

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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

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form on a whole bunch of them I'll have to find out exactly which ones they are and I'll let you

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guys know that but otherwise that's fantastic and I hope you guys enjoy that um and I think so yeah

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next week we're going to be talking about scorpions and I've got a couple of special guests coming up

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as well a couple that are one that is local here to me in the states to Colorado so we're going to

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have eight legged adventures as a guest and we're going to interview them on the 2nd of December

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so you don't want to miss that and then we're also going to have a fatty pancake as a guest I believe

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on the 25th of November so this month um and so we're we're definitely looking forward to

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having those two special guests and I hope you guys can join us and bring a couple of your own

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extra questions for them um because they are excited to be on our show but that's all I've got

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so I guess it's bye bye thank you Simon as always thank you so much for being with us

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and talking about snails with me and joining me on this learning adventure I appreciate it

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and we will see you guys next week at the same time same place