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Snail Gives Birth After Surviving Bird's Digestive Tract

 Land snail  recently survived being eaten by birds
 (Image Credit:Jurgen Schoner)

  

New research from Japan shows that snails can survive being eaten by birds. During a study in Japan, over 174 land snails (Tornatellides boeningi) were fed to two bird species that have a taste for snails: the Japanese white-eye (Zosterops japonicus) and the brown-eared bulbul (Hypsipetes amaurotis). "14.3 percent and 16.4 percent of the snails, respectively, passed through the gut alive," the researchers wrote, adding that one snail even gave birth to juveniles after being pushed out  in the bird's droppings.

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