nessus@nsc.UUCP (Kchula-Rrit) (09/12/85)
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Over the Labor Day holiday, the MOTAS and I went with a friend to a park
in the coastal hills to the [logical] south-west of here(Sunnyvale, Calif.).
While we were there we went on one of those nature-trails that have in the stat
parks out here. The particular area is near the coast, and so is VERY wet.
The only things that we saw moving(!) in the forest, INCLUDING birds, were the
slugs. I thought this was pretty bizarre. These things were approx six to nine
inches long, and they were the color of lemon-meringue(sp?) pie filling. Are
these the famed banana slugs that received so much discussion on the net
recently? The reports that I got said that a REAL one was covered with little
brown spots like a banana, but these were spotless.
I nominate the lemon-meringue slug for the net.bizarre animal/mascot!!
Someone recently mentioned that they observed a hole in the sides of
slugs. I happened to run across a couple of slugs that appeared to be making
love in the grass, with one of the happy pair apparently making use of the
hole in some fashion. I couldn't see any corresponding <part> on the other
partner(modesty on the their part), but it seems to me that the hole is a
vagina. Or are slugs hermaphroditic?
Kchula-Rritkjm@ut-ngp.UTEXAS (Ken Montgomery) (09/17/85)
[reposted since I don't think it got out the first time...]
I don't know for sure about slugs, but snails are hermaphroditic...
And if you want truly bizarre reproductive practices, you can always
note the existence of parthenogenetic lizards (no males of the species).
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kjm@ngp.UTEXAS.EDU [Internet, if the nameservers are up]hav@dual.UUCP (Not Sid Vicious) (09/17/85)
<*munch*>
=> Over the Labor Day holiday, the MOTAS and I went with a friend to a park
=> in the coastal hills to the [logical] south-west of here(Sunnyvale, Calif.).
=> While we were there we went on one of those nature-trails that have in the
=> stat parks out here. The particular area is near the coast, and so is VERY
=> wet. The only things that we saw moving(!) in the forest, INCLUDING birds,
=> were the slugs. I thought this was pretty bizarre. These things were
=> approx six to nine inches long, and they were the color of lemon-meringue(sp)
=> pie filling. Are these the famed banana slugs that received so much
=> discussion on the net recently? The reports that I got said that a REAL one
=> was covered with little brown spots like a banana, but these were spotless.
I will offer to identify the slug for you if you will procure another and
email it to me using the path below.
=> I nominate the lemon-meringue slug for the net.bizarre animal/mascot!!
I second the nomination, pending verification that this is indeed a lemon
meringue slug (Limex lemonus meringus).
=> Someone recently mentioned that they observed a hole in the sides of
=> slugs. I happened to run across a couple of slugs that appeared to be making
=> love in the grass, with one of the happy pair apparently making use of the
=> hole in some fashion. I couldn't see any corresponding <part> on the other
=> partner(modesty on the their part), but it seems to me that the hole is a
=> vagina. Or are slugs hermaphroditic?
=>
=> Kchula-Rrit
No comment. Too kinky. (This guy likes to get it on with slugs?) :-)
Helen Anne
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