8 interesting facts about snails
- Snails cannot hear.
- Garden snails hibernate during the winter and live on their stored fat.
- Giant snails may live to 20 years or more.
- A snail can slide over a razor blade without being hurt!
- The kauri snail is carnivorous and cannibalistic. Its diet consists of earthworms, insects, insect larvae, and snails.
- The largest land snail recorded weighed only 2 pounds and was 15 inches long. It was discovered in 1976.
- The Ghana Tiger Snail is the largest land snail and can grow up to 30 centimetres.
- Snails are hermaphrodites which means that they have both male and female reproductive organs.
