Garden Snail Facts: a SNAIL with RACING STRIPES 🐌 Animal Fact Files 

The garden snail is a snail with racing stripes. It originally had a different scientific name than its current name, do you know what is was? Learn more garden snail facts on this episode of Animal Fact Files!
Scientific Name: Cornu aspersum (known as Helix aspersa for hundreds of years)
Range: originally from western Europe, introduced throughout most of the world
Habitat: anywhere with enough moisture, food, and cover such as gardens, woodland edges, and even graveyards
Size: just over an inch (2.5cm) long and tall across the shell
Diet: mostly plant material including flowers and fruits as well as decaying organisms and even paper
Threats: mammals, birds (especially ducks), reptiles, and amphibians, etc.
Lifespan: 3-5 years in average, but over a decade possible
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Garden Snail APPEARANCE 0:48
Garden Snail RANGE 1:22
Garden Snail HABITAT and DIET 2:18
Garden Snail THREATS and SHELL 3:05
Garden Snail NEST 4:00
Garden Snail LIFE CYCLE and LIFE SPAN 4:34
Thanks! 5:16
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Image and Video Credits:
Zachi Evenor - • Garden Snail in Israel
Philippe Henry - flickr.com/photos/philgimp/18...
Mary Qin - vimeo.com/20504073
I Am Brady - vimeo.com/101283323
Unripe Content - vimeo.com/161280529
N3CR0N0M1C0N - vimeo.com/100909383
Africa Gomez - • Courting garden snails
cbdawson - • snail
Andreas Koll - • snail
Vic Production - vimeo.com/260748136
Rick Boufford - vimeo.com/104797005 ; vimeo.com/117952754
Research Credits:
www.itis.gov/servlet/SingleRp...
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/Taxonomy...
entnemdept.ufl.edu/creatures/...
www.cabidigitallibrary.org/do...
www.molluscs.at/gastropoda/te...
www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-w...
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