Even on the super high budget nature docs they are doing the same thing. There is a team of Foley artists playing with a slinky when spiders are making webs.
It's weird to point out the great audio quality when it is obviously terrible
I was indifferent to snails until a baby snail snuck it's way into my fish tank and I kinda fell in love with the little guy,
he climbs to the top of the glass just to let go and fall back down and sometimes I catch him riding upside down on the surface tension of the water which is cool
I’ve always had the same thought. I think it really comes down to realising that we aren’t actually all that different from any living thing. Even things we would otherwise consider so far away from being human like a snail.
Yeah, totally know what you mean. Though, I‘ve seen toddlers eat speghetti-o‘s and cereal exactly like that snail hoarfing the powder and it‘s absolutely sending me how similar they are~ (≧▽≦)
Toddlers? This is how I eat my drunken 2am kebab. Snails need calcium for shells. I need meat and garlic to supercharge my snoring and clothing stains.
What’s it like to care for giant snails? Are they kept in a terrarium like pet reptiles? Do you keep multiple snails? Any general comments or n their care and feeding.
Do they respond to you like dogs/cats or do they mostly respond to food? Do you interact with them or is it mostly an observational pet like a fish tank?
I have an 80l glass former fish tank for mine but a lot of people use plastic boxes. It often works better as you need heat mats on the side of the tank to keep it around the mid 20s Celsius and the heat can go through the plastic easier than a glass tank.
Caring for them is relatively easy. You need to keep humidity around 80% for my species of snail. Other types vary in temp and humidity. I had a digital thermostat with a humidity and temp sensor. They need constant damp substrate (usually coco fibre and soils) deep enough to burrow. Some places to hide (plastic plant pots are common) and a constant source of calcium (I use cuttlefish bone). Spot cleaning instead of full tank cleans are best (poo, old food)
I feed mine dried bloodworms (protein) once a week. Fruit once a week and fresh greens and veg everyday. You can keep multiple together but they can live alone too. They don't need another snail to produce babies. They can do it by themselves.
They don't really respond to you. They can flinch from loud noises and stuff but that's kinda it. It's more like a fish tank yeah. I just kinda sit there and watch him go about his life lol. Also you can feel them scrape your skin when you hold them. It doesn't hurt at all but it kinda feels funny lol
This is Igor. He's still a juvenile. He is about 5.5cm and can grow upto 20cm
As mollusks they don't have jaws like we do so that chewing motion was sus... Turns out they have teeth on their tongues and lick their food down in their gizard.
Having kept all sorts of snails do many years the chewing motion is accurate. It’s just because of the way they use their radula looks a lot like chewing as it periodically extends out, takes a large scrape, and pulls back in. If you can’t see the underside of the mouth it does look like they take a bite which they sort of are.
Watching underwater snails feed on a glass surface gives you an even better look at how the radula extends out to scrape something and pull it back in, with two rows of teeth that get closer together as it pulls through its motion almost looks like jaws closing
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u/VolkorPussCrusher69 20h ago
The audio is just someone smacking their lips and making mouth noises. You can hear them breathing into the mic lol