Last month a wooden crate containing 3,000 snails traveled from the north of England to Bermuda as part of a conservation project to prevent the lesser Bermuda land snail from going extinct.
Last month a wooden crate containing 1,000 adult snails and 2,000 juveniles embarked on a 3,000-mile journey from a zoo in the north of England to Bermuda. The snails were carefully packed inside the crate, alongside wet tissues that helped maintain the temperature during the seven-hour flight, and green beans for an in-flight meal.
“They’re doing great – we see that the animals are established, breeding and spreading,” he says. In fact, the species is doing so well on its own, he believes it no longer needs to be bred in a zoo environment. The hope is that the lesser land snail will follow the greater’s slimy trail. “We’ve been using the greater Bermuda land snail as the surrogate, or the research proxy, assuming that if they do well, the lesser Bermuda land snail will do as well,” says Outerbridge.
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