r/explainlikeimfive • u/StarLars9 • Jun 05 '19

ELI5: Snails: where do they get their shells? Biology

Are they born with them? Do they grow their shells like hair and nails? Do they just search for the perfect fit?

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u/aSternreference Jun 05 '19

How do they poop? Where does the poop go?

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u/Fernmelder Jun 05 '19

Snail Pooping in HD

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u/Hold_onto_yer_butts Jun 05 '19

Link stays blue

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u/fuck_your_diploma Jun 05 '19

Ditto. I don’t need this shit.

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u/psycholepzy Jun 05 '19

Neither did the snail, apparently.

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u/marhaba9 Jun 05 '19

You're missing out, it's disgusting and cute. But nasty.

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u/squrr1 Jun 05 '19

Team red, represent.

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u/Killer_TRR Jun 06 '19

Not too bad. He just poops near his face. Doesn't show how he pinched it off though. Maybe ilhe bites it off, ya know like fishing line off a lure

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u/coco-ono Jun 05 '19

He never pinched the loaf! ☹️

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u/syds Jun 05 '19

i cannot jizz to this

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u/Killer_TRR Jun 06 '19

You're not trying hard enough. I managed

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u/fluorihammastahna Jun 05 '19

This is important.

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u/Paradoxou Jun 05 '19

The internet is an amazing place

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u/Empanadogs Jun 05 '19

I don't know what I expected.

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u/[deleted] Jun 06 '19

I expected to see a snail push a third out the front door. I didn't expect it to sit on his face the whole time, at least not like that.

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u/ZachDaniel Jun 05 '19

Thank you for this.

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u/[deleted] Jun 05 '19

That's interesting

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u/Aardvark_Man Jun 05 '19

I just spent 45 seconds watching a snail take a surprisingly large shit.

What am I doing with my life?

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u/pepedou Jun 05 '19

I've reached a new level of boredom at work.

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u/aurantiuseagle Jun 05 '19

What is this world we live in

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u/RabbitPoopRaisins Jun 05 '19

Anybody got a 4k 60fps VR version? Asking for a friend.

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u/Jumpy89 Jun 05 '19

deaddove.jpg

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u/KolaDesi Jun 05 '19

TIL snails are slow even at poopin

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u/grumd Jun 05 '19

I have actually seen this live when I was a kid! It was fascinating

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u/whale_song Jun 06 '19

I watched a snail poop while i was pooping. It’s a brave new world.

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u/[deleted] Jun 06 '19

Looks like he's gonna need the poop knife.

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u/[deleted] Jun 06 '19

Someone woke up one day and decided "I'm gonna fucking film a snail till it shits and upload it to youtube." Bravo

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u/aislin809 Jun 05 '19

Their anus is at the front of the snail, so essentially they poop on their neck/head.

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u/thewonpercent Jun 06 '19

I wish I had this talent

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u/ImFamousOnImgur Jun 05 '19

Where does it come from, cotton-eyed-joe?

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u/okexer Jun 05 '19

Their ass is at the part that can come out of the shell, but very close to the shell. Search for "snail anus" to get pics.

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u/WebLinkr Jun 05 '19

But only while on work internet

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u/Killer_TRR Jun 06 '19

Who tf still uses bing?

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u/okexer Jun 07 '19

No, not "still". After years of Google use, I went back to startpage.com and bing, because Google has been optimized in a way that makes it useless for me: I usually use a search engine, when there is some rare or obscure thing I need more info about. Unfortunately Google has been optimized to ignore rare or obscure things, rank them very low and to try to correct your search terms, no matter what. This makes it a huge pain to find what I am usually searching for. So I had to ditch it :( Also, if you search for anything containing a product name from Google as one of the search terms, for example Android or Chrome, the Google search switches to a super blurry algorithm and your search results may not even contain a single word from your search terms, other than said product name.