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3 hours ago

Global quest to find Ned the snail a mate - so what makes him so rare?

Ned's coils are on the wrong side of his shell! As any nature lover will know, snails have a 'whorl' - a pattern of spirals or concentric circles - found on only one side of their shells. The large majority of snails have the spiral on the right side, but around one in 40,000 have the spiral on the left side.
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fromwww.theguardian.com
1 week ago

New Zealand launches campaign to find love for rare and lonely left-spiralling snail Ned

A left-spiralling garden snail named Ned is extremely rare (about 1 in 40,000) and cannot mate with typical right-coiled snails.
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