Six Snail Secrets

 

1.  The Common Garden Snail is called l'Escargot Petit-gris in French. Its scientific name is Helix conspersa.
2. Snails absorb water through their skin, like a sponge.
3. They don't have a nose. They breath through a hole under their shell.
4. Snails can do 9 metres an hour. Their mucus forms a soft carpet on which they can slide without injuring themselves.
5. Their rasping tongue is covered with thousands of tiny teeth to shred their food into small pieces.
6. Snails sleep all winter in their shells, sealed by a cover of hardened spit.