you Are not the world’s fastest animals, then one must find another defense mechanism, if you will not consumed.
An australian snail, called the Triboniophorus graeffei or ‘red triangle slug’ (red triangle-auger, ed.), produces, for example, sticky mucus, which acts as a kind of superglue. It writes NewScientist according to the Science.dk, where you can also see a frog, which is stuck in the snail gunk.
If a frog sneak into the snail, the frog will get stuck in several days. But how the snail itself to avoid getting stuck is still a mystery.
John Gould from the University of Newcastle in Australia discovered on a trip in the national park Watagans a branch with a snail and a frog.
Since the frog had not moved on in 10 minutes, selected John Gould to take the branch with the content with the back to his laboratory.
the Day after had the frog still does not move, and when you finally chose to help the free, was the by with to stick firmly to all kinds of surfaces, because of the slime that still sat on its body.
We know of two other snail species that produces a similar sticky mucus, but this is the first time you see ‘sneglelimen’ used in the wild, ” explains Jose Valdez, who is affiliated with the University of Aarhus in Denmark and is co-author of the new study, to New Scientist.
The strength indicates that it not only works as a diversion – the frog would in the wild probably have been devoured, or the death of a lack of water, before ’the glue’ stopped working.
A special quality of the ‘glue’ is, furthermore, that the humidity gives it renewed strength, whereas it stops working if it dries out.
A team of researchers will, with inspiration from the mucus from a second snegleart by the name of Arion subfuscus, develop an adhesive for wound treatment in humans.
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