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On safari through this book, readers will learn to identify specific slugs, snails, and worms. They'll explore their behavior, life cycle, mating habits, geographical location, anatomy, enemies, and defenses.
On safari through this book, readers will learn to identify specific slugs, snails, and worms. They'll explore their behavior, life cycle, mating habits, geographical location, anatomy, enemies, and defenses.
When a snail convinces Sam Slug that he is a snail without a house, they begin a futile search for Sam's lost shell. Includes facts about slugs.
So attached was the author Patricia Highsmith to snails that they became her constant travelling companions. Often hidden in a large handbag, they provided her with comfort and companionship in what she perceived to be a hostile world. Theirs was perhaps an unusual relationship; for most of us the tentacled snail with his sticky trail might be a delicious treat served up in garlic butter but certainly not an affectionate pet. As well, for many a gardener, opinions on the snail and slug (which is a just a snail without a shell) have been shaped by the harm they inflict on vegetable plants and seedlings. With Snail, Peter Williams wishes to change our perspectives on this little but much-maligned creature. Beginning with an overview of our relationship with snails, slugs, and sea snails, Williams moves on to examine snail evolution; snail behavior and habitat; snails as food, medicine, and the source of useful chemicals and dyes; snail shells as collectible objects; and snails in literature, art, and popular culture. Finally, in this appreciative account of the snail, Williams offers a plea for a reconsideration of the snail as a dignified, ancient creature that deserves our respect. Containing beautiful illustrations and written in an approachable, informal style, Snail will help readers get beyond the shell and slime to discover the fascinating creature inside.
Slugs and snails can be many different sizes and colors. Sea snails are brightly-colored to warn off attackers. Great black slugs can be longer than a pencil. All slugs and snails have a shell. A snail carries its shell, but a slug's shell is hidden inside its body. Book jacket.
Slugs and snails are part of the great Phylum Mollusca, a group that contains creatures as varied as the fast-moving squid or the sedentary clams, cockles and mussels. The largest group, however, are the gastropods, animals originally with a single foot and a single coiled shell.
