Researchers have eggs to catch 1 photos of this uncommon snail from their neck

Dedicated to a rare species of non -vegetarian snails after a dozen years, Lisa Flagon was finally thrilled to film the moment, recently, submerged in mystery.

In the Department of Protection of New Zealand, a Ranger, Falagan, a Powellipanta Agusta was weighing the snail when he saw what looked like a small hen egg from a small opening under his head.

“It was just one of the things that were just one temporary,” Flangan said that As it happens Host Nil Koxle. “He was to lay the egg at that time.”

Powellipanta Augusta snails take eight years to reach sexual maturity, after which they lay about five eggs a year through an opening in their neck. But, despite taking care of the critics in cool containers in a feature in Hokitica, NZ in about two decades, the employees had never seen this manifest on May 7 till that frightening moment.

Flangan says that the whole thing happened within just one minute.

The footage, she says, confirms some details about the reproductive cycle of these snails, while indicating new ones for those working with organisms.

In the clip, as the egg emerges, a surprised Palagan can be heard saying from his colleague: “I wonder if it hurts if it hurts.”

Meet one of the world’s largest carnivorous snails

Dozens of species and sub -species of polypanta snails are found only in New Zealand, mostly in the rugged forest and meadow settings, where they are threatened with loss of habitat.

In a length of about nine centimeters, Powellipanta Augusta is one of the world’s largest carnivorous snails, known to reduce earthworms such as noodles.

Even observing their food habits have been a rareness for flagan. Although they are fed monthly, in 12 years of taking care of these snails, he and his colleagues saw him only three or four times.

Powellipanta Augusta was the center of public uproar and legal proceedings in the early 2000s, when coal mining company Solid Energy threatened to destroy the only residence of snails on the Mount Augustus ridge line.

Some 4,000 were removed from the site and transferred, while to ensure the conservation of more than 2,000 species, the west coast of Hokitica was placed in cool storage in the city, which is slow for breeding and not well suited for new houses.

In 2011, some 800 of snails accidentally died in a department of the Department of Protection with defective temperature control. The conservation agency stated that the slow existence of the species continues: In March this year, about 1,900 snails and about 2,200 eggs were in captivity.

Why neck?

While reproducing from the edge of the neck may seem strange, it is in fact, equal to the course for snails.

This is because they are engaged in protective shells that allow them to retreat from predators and bad weather conditions.

This evolutionary feature, however, can also cause complications, such as how to have sexual intercourse with other snails and reproduce successfully, Call Walker, Senior Science Advisor to the NZ Department of Conservation.

“Powellifanta has solved an inauguration (a genital hole) on the right side of his body by making an opening (a genital perforation) under their head,” Walker said in a press release.

Like other snails, Powellipanta Agusta is the hemaprodites. Therefore, to have sexual intercourse, the unknown genital genitals are used simultaneously to exchange sperm with another snail, which is stored until each makes an egg until each is stored.

“The snails need to peep out of their shell only to do business,” the walker said.

While most snails lay eggs, some breed through living births – also through their neck.

Last July, the Campbell’s Glass-final was captured the video as a birth child at the Taarga Zoo in Sydney, Australia. Video A mini snail shows – shell, tent, and all – slipping from their parents’ neck.

Flagon stated that it is common for Powellipanta Agusta snail eggs, on average, for 400 days for a hatch. When the day comes to the end, he said that it is “just a little small as a snail.”

She says that she hopes that Hokitika’s own video shows others how amazing these snails are.

“People think that it doesn’t like it, you know, an alcoholic little kiwi or a penguin or something like that. It’s just a snail. But not, they are there for a reason,” he said.

“People don’t understand how calm they are and those things they do.”