True Facts: Killer Surfing Snails

let's back up a bit this is Abigail second one from the top sort of right-center Abbi is a sea snail in the species olivella semi strata and she tells everyone because it's so fun to say she loves the beach but she's a mind your own business sort of snail she spends most of her time hiding under the sand Abby's friend Milly lives down there too Milly is in the species Mazatlan earful Kurata which Abby thinks is a bit much it's always drama with Milly and she can't stop talking about her babies which she carries on her back if she stopped freaking out for a second we could see them freeze see they form little clusters on her back and if we take a closer look we can see all the little babies inside caviar and escargot all in one very French they're going to die too in any case let's get back to Abigail the olivella semi strata as it approaches low tide and it's time to eat abigail does something special mostly buried in the sand facing the ocean she stretches out to propose eel appendages which are wing like extensions on the front of her foot here they are up close but she gets a little mushy mushy out of the water she wipes these appendages across the bottom of her foot to gather mucus as she unfurls them into the flowing water this creates two mucus knits sort of like if you fools sneezed into your hand and then spread your fingers these snot Nets collect small particles of food from the passing water it's kind of crazy right then she pulls the mucus back to her mouth and slurps it all up her mouth is the tube on the top the bottom one is a siphon Thank You Abigail that's a better view of your siphon it's like a little snail snorkel that pulls in water and helps them breathe to keep eating in the flowing backwash she needs to move with the tide she travels by foot sorry joke wave like muscular contractions similar to this land snail along with a nice dollop of mucus allow her to glide easily across the wits and so you leave a little trail of mucus nothing to be embarrassed about on the back part of her foot which is called the meta podium she has two meta podium flaps which are sometimes tucked up against her side as she crawls she can use these flaps to help pull herself under the sand they form an underground covering for part of her shell thinks somewhere between foreskin and a vest comfy she also uses these flaps to sort of gallop when she's startled go Abby go however when she wants to travel a bit further if she can do something amazing by extending her flaps and turning on her back she can use her foot to catch the surf it's like an underwater Mary Poppins umbrella but covered in mucus she'll even flap along a bit like a beard keeping up speed until she's in a more suitable position on the beach and then it's back to eating boogers whilst buried however abigail is not the only surfer on this Beach though the sea snail and gorona Pro patella nicknamed aggro you don't see why has quite an impressive foot surfboard of its own but anga Ronia is not interested in making booger nets in the back off instead it's surfing these beaches to find well Abigail let's back up a bit aronia is a fearsome predator but here's the thing it can't really sense anything more than about three centimeters away and it's the same with Abigail - beach life is so simple and predictable that over the years they've lost their eyes and their tentacles sort of like how human surfers eventually lose their shirts and shoes and jobs so watching these snails can sometimes be like watching a bad horror movie no don't go that way she went that way chomp instead of eyes and tentacles anger onea has evolved sensory organs on the front part of its foot or apropos diem this leading edge that footsie with the world can sense chemical signals and movement if it comes across a drop of snail juice it strikes it likes to eat living things so almost anything that moves is fair game when it strikes anger Anya has a fairly unusual method of capture if it's unclear what just happened let me explain let's just look at the foot and don't give me crap about the baby that's a very bad baby during a strike the front part forms a spoon shape this grabs the prey and pulls it back towards the back part of its foot the back part or meta podium kind of cinches up as if it had a drawstring this forms what is called a meta polio pouch in which the prey is stored because it can't really see if an erroneous into something it takes advantage of it it's like if during Black Friday shopping Walmart turned off all of the lights you just be grabbing stuff who knows what would end up in the cart and you bump into the janitor if he's small enough you pick him up and plop them in there right next to the George Foreman brayla so this hermit crab here has eyes by the way he should have known better is now seriously regretting having passed over that bottle cap to live in and he's like I'm a crab not a snail look I have pinchy pinches agar onea don't give a crap once its prey is in its pouch anger onea begins to burry itself in the sand and gosh it moved this is a bummer way to die let's face it it looks like someone mostly buried an old man on a nudist beach any whom agar Onias foot begins to release proteolytic enzymes to start the digestion process sorry it's just it's kind of ironic to die in a testicle right once under the sand anchor onea will insert its mouth into the pouch on the end of a - blank proboscis this mouth is equipped with a radula you can see one in action on these other snails and slugs it's a flexible sheet of teeth like fleshy fleshy sandpaper using its rajala it will eat up all the soft parts and leave the cleaned out shells behind so when you pick up that pretty shell on the beach it's basically a murder scene but if you're a Negroni a-- you have to be careful live by the foot die by the foot sort of thing because AG aronia are Hannibal's and there's always a larger AG aronia of foot sorry it gets complicated you start getting into arguments about who's eating who you know stuff you'd hear at an orgy for narcissists anger Oh Nia are so aggressive they will attack things much larger than they could ever fit in their pouch but they'll give it the old college try by the way if you're a scientist with a foot fetish this is the animal you should study Danny I don't want you going down to the beach and putting our finger in snails feet all the neighbors keep asking me why is Danny going down to the beach and fingering snails feet mother you can't talk to me like that anymore it's my job and I'm a grown man look it's trying to eat a people anger Oh Mia isn't all offense though it has one more special feature see that dark line that goes through its foot that is called an autonomy plane when a caronia is under attack and retracts into its shell the part of its foot that is exposed can tear off along that line and over time it will grow back on beaches very far away from this one across the world other snails have also evolved the ability to serve if a gorilla are like the Lions of the swash surfing snails then snails in the genus bullier are like the vultures they've got more of a longboard style of surfing and what they're looking for are dead things that washed up on the beach to rot when bulliest senses the cloud of juices wafting from this blue bottle jellyfish for example it will serve to the part of the beach where the jellyfish is most likely to have landed if you smell cookies look in the kitchen sort of thing no need for a foot pouch the jellyfish isn't going anywhere and bully afid Zahn the remains directly with its mouth cube bully I also have a creative way of rounding out their diet their shells attract the growth of a green algae which they will eat from time to time to get their veggies in even sharp shooters like in Paige's sally ayanna have taken to surfing up and down the beach as they hunt for worms they ride a nice little short board in Paige's are in the same super family as these cone snails and they have yet another method of hunting they extend their proboscis out towards their prey in this case a not-so-smart fish then they use a modified rajala in the shape of a barbed needle to harpoon the fish the range Allah contains toxins which can stun or kill the prey which is then consumed whole by the rest of the mouth parts it's kind of terrifying but it's over pretty quickly and it beats dying in a ballsack by the way if you're a fish don't respond to those ads in the newspaper to be part of a clinical research trial so wait what am I supposed to do exactly just hang out that's it hold on is this a porno oh crap it is a porno yet another snail that serves he's just kidding there's no more you got scared there for a second didn't you but listen I need to talk to you about these snail trails they're random right but are they are they I mean look at it this isn't like that whole type the word monkey a million times and then it's weight you take a typewriter and you put a monkey on it in it no there's a lot of typewriters all right and there's a lot of monkeys and they're all drawings in the sand this is really getting embarrassing for both of us [Music]

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Length: 10min 23sec (623 seconds)

Published: Fri May 01 2020

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[u/AlterdCarbon]

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“Not the only surfer on this bitch....BEACH”

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For people just discovering true facts, do yourself a favor and watch them all. Glad Ze Frank has more creative freedom in buzzfeed these days!

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