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Post by brunni on Sept 24, 2011 6:47:48 GMT
Here's a link to a book written by an invalided woman concerning the unusual bond she develops with a snail friend. Click........ to listen to a snail eating....... hear from the author........ read the first chapters. www.elisabethtovabailey.net/  |
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Post by coyote on Sept 25, 2011 22:35:52 GMT
I love that book! It's so well written. I highly recommend it!  |
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Post by brunni on Sept 28, 2011 5:16:54 GMT
Any idea if the sound of a snail eating changes according to what it eats ?  |
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Post by foghog on Sept 28, 2011 14:26:51 GMT
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Post by brunni on Sept 30, 2011 15:19:43 GMT
The sound of this snail eating is like somebody biting big chunks out of a crispy apple but not actually chewing them up. Its a Neohelix albolabris resident to north-east America and isn't very large. See : snailstales.blogspot.com/2005/07/neohelix-albolabris.htmlThinks..........would the sound of a giant tiger eating be much louder ? Anybody hear their tigers eating ? |
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Post by coyote on Sept 30, 2011 17:31:19 GMT
I can recall going to the arboretum in San Francisco's Golden Gate Park early one quiet, foggy morning and in the stillness being able to hear the slugs rasping away on the foliage of some shrubs beside the path. It wasn't loud; if there had been any more activity in the vicinity the subtle sound would have been drowned out. But it was audible to anyone who stopped next to the shrubs and paid attention.
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Post by brunni on Oct 2, 2011 6:04:20 GMT
Thanks Coyote for the confirmation that a mollusk's rasping is audible to the human ear.  I guess the woman who wrote that book had many quiet nights to listen to her snail friend. 
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Post by ness on Oct 2, 2011 20:56:46 GMT
My younger son (he's now 12) has had some of our pet snails in his room for years now. He loves to hear the snails eating at night, finds it rather soothing  |
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Post by brunni on Oct 3, 2011 13:38:02 GMT
Wow cool. Not keeping snails, I never realized you could hear them eating. I read elsewhere on the forum about other noises they make, but never about the rasping sound. 
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Post by prowljazz on Oct 4, 2011 7:38:49 GMT
I've got a Recording of SnailBurt Rasping on Cuttle on My Phone....
Also I Think This the Same book I have Requested from the Libary.....
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Post by pinkunicorn on Nov 19, 2011 18:46:01 GMT
Bought the Kindle book. |
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Post by prowljazz on Nov 19, 2011 19:21:39 GMT
It IS The Same Book and I REALLY Enjoyed reading it.....
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coyote
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Post by coyote on Nov 20, 2011 5:03:40 GMT
It's a wonderful book, isn't it? |
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Post by prowljazz on Nov 20, 2011 9:08:42 GMT
Yes.... Will Buy it if I Ever see it for Sale.... Maye I'll ask for it for Christmas....
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Post by brunni on Nov 20, 2011 21:39:06 GMT
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Post by saki114 on Feb 29, 2012 2:03:13 GMT
I read that book 5x IN A ROW!!! ;D t is so w onderful and touching! I recommend it to ANY snail lover!!!!!!! I LOVE that book!!! "\@_ everyone who live where it is available, READ IT. You wont regret it. |
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Post by saki114 on Feb 29, 2012 2:04:35 GMT
Bought the Kindle book. didnt know there was a kindle version. Ill check it out and read it 4 the 6th time! |
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I guess the woman who wrote that book had many quiet nights to listen to her snail friend. 
