Monday, April 5, 2010
SNAILS !
Simple Facts about Snails !
Snails are considered to be one of the slowest creatures on the entire Earth !
I am certain many know this !
Snails will die if they consume either salt or sugar !
Interesting ! How can I live without salt and sugar ???? Snails are fascinating !
Snails take about two years to be mature for reproduction ! That's fast !
In the light of the above picture, I could not believed that a slow small creature like the snail have so many different parts and organs. Very interesting. just look at the above diagram and you should know how mesmerized I was. It's organs and body parts are way different from other living creatures. Snails are slow, slimy and edible too. It is very delicious ! Well, these are the basics taht I knew. The question that Miss Nada gave us, has never stuck me before. I never thought about how snails reproduce. Here. I'm glad to be given this task because I finally knew how interesting snails are. Here we go !
HOW DO SNAILS REPRODUCE ?
Snails will be able to reproduce differently than almost any other type of creature because of their species and their make-up.
Snails are considered to be hermaphrodites.
Snail will have both male and female reproductive organs.This is especially consistent among land snails and most marine.
The only snails that have not adapted this attribute is some freshwater and marine species, specifically including Apple Snails and periwinkles. These two types of snails still have a separate male and female species.
(Snail Reproductive System)
So complicated !
All snails will be considered sexually mature by the time they are one year old. That's fast !
The make-up of the snails will include their reproductive organs on the side of their body.
This is close to the top of their body as well, allowing for easier abilities to mate and to grow the baby snails.
Growing Into Baby Snails
Have you imagined how snails reproduce ?
I only started to wonder how it is reproduce when I was given a task by Miss Nada to research about this topic. Interestingly, I found out that snails have a special and a very different way of reproducing compared to other living things. What I found out is that when two snails mate, each snail presses the front part of its foot against the foot of the other snail. The snails shoot a hard dart also known as the love dart into each other, which makes sperm pass between them. However, a single snail can do all this by itself! So cool ! The sperm will make the eggs each snail lays, grow into baby snails.About two weeks after mating, the snail scrapes a hole in the soil and lays its eggs there. A snail lays between 20 and 50 eggs at a time. Wow ! It is a large number eggs compared to the number of eggs human have.The eggs are covered up. Snails are protective too right ? Amazingly it only takes 4 weeks before it hatches.
I felt lucky that I was well taken care off when I was born a not being left alone to defend themselves just like the snails do. !
The mating procedures of snails is one that moves through a specific process that helps the species to grow and survive in their respectable areas.
From the beginnings of sexual maturity to finding the rate mate to the hatching of the eggs, is a specific way in which the snails are able to move into a world of growing a larger snail family.
From what I have researched from the internet. What I can say is that I am extremely mesmerized about how snails reproduce. They are special creatures with special way of reproduction. Don't you think so ? We should also not see things just based on its appearance. Instead we should learn to explore and find out more about it in order to get intersting facts. Just like what I have found out about snails!Snails looks simple in its outside but when you look again at the diagram I have found,it is totally the opposite. Interesting and complicated.Snails are also patient creatures. It took them about 20 hours or even a day for mating. They stay to reproduce and their instinct to mutipli is very strong.Basically from here, I can say that we should not give up no matter how slow we are because we know that every living things are special on its own.
Some of the information are abstracted from :
http://www.snail-world.com/How-do-Snails-Reproduce.html
Done by Nisa Nurdini !
Labels: Snails
Sunshine ; 12:34 AM
Simple Facts about Snails !
(Snail Reproductive System) 
Growing Into Baby Snails
