Snail with a Housing Problem

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[00:32] Having a conversation a debate a healthy debate with
[00:38] Kyle last evening
[00:41] and
[00:44] I made the argument that a
[00:49] Slug was just a snail without a shell and she said that I was an idiot because they're two different
[00:58] Creatures animals
[01:00] and then we debated about that for a while and then
[01:05] She won the argument as she often does
[01:08] Because I said by being a smartass
[01:10] Well, if you saw a snail without a shell, what would you call it? And she said shit out of luck
[01:17] so I
[01:20] my question to you all is is a
[01:25] Slug just a snail without a shell or are they different animals?
[01:30] I assume they're closely related if they are different animals
[01:35] And if you were to see a snail without a shell, wouldn't you call that a slug? That's my question
[01:41] You and I you want to star Jason?
[01:47] Sure, so in the reverse since I'm not a
[01:53] What do you call it not an expert on the
[02:01] But I am NOT an expert on
[02:04] The genus moluska or whatever it is
[02:07] So if I saw a snail without a shoulder, it would definitely be a snails are of the family mollusks
[02:14] For people who don't follow super cools. Go ahead. Okay. Okay, people don't know
[02:19] Oh
[02:21] Yeah, good. Cool. Sorry. So mollusks are gelatinous creatures. No, they're things with small things with shells. Okay. Yeah
[02:30] so like clams oysters
[02:33] Yep
[02:35] Muscles, so so I think that they are very closely related species
[02:41] I think they are distinct species though
[02:43] And I think there are many many many different types of subspecies of both slug and snail
[02:49] Within that but I think that they are
[02:52] Different like for instance, I don't think that a slug could just go find like
[02:58] Be like hey, there's a shell check it out. Check me out guys
[03:01] Like I think they live in different environs
[03:03] I think that snails tend to be more marine where slugs are more terrestrial
[03:10] For instance
[03:12] The proud quasi alumnus of UC Santa Cruz home of the banana slugs
[03:17] And so these are like they live only in that region of the world, which is like mountainous
[03:24] sort of terrain or whatever
[03:27] and
[03:28] Never have a shell. They never come across a shell, right? Okay, and shells you would only encounter I think in
[03:37] Like marine areas
[03:40] Well, maybe specifically salt water, but I mean it depends
[03:44] I mean, occasionally you can find a shell if you're really really lucky on top of mountain, right? But yeah that requires
[03:50] More luck than skill. You're not gonna have a species that evolves based on that kind of
[03:56] Extreme, right? That's right. That's right. So like sand crabs
[04:01] Go out and find a shell and throw it on their back, right?
[04:06] Yep, but they're not mine and then they grow and they grow too big and then they like have to find a bigger
[04:12] She'll get rid of that when I go find a bigger show. Yep contra a snail which grows its shell organically. It is actually oh
[04:20] See I didn't run over that I assume they went and found a shell and then they lived in it
[04:27] No, I believe I would think that they would secrete the shell basically
[04:34] Yeah, so a slug doesn't secrete its own shell that's the difference between a snail and a slug
[04:43] One of the differences sure
[04:46] Otherwise they're both pretty slimy
[04:48] Yeah, yeah, I mean I think that I I think both of you guys are absolutely right they are closely related, right? Yeah
[04:56] but the ability to
[04:58] You know secrete a shell which is probably not that far removed from fingernails or something like that, right?
[05:06] That's right, yeah, then you know that that's a pretty major biological difference in terms
[05:12] That's pretty massive. Yeah, I mean saying is that she's very right and I was stupid to argue it
[05:20] No, I mean I can see where you would think right especially because right like Coalson
[05:25] or like Harper said there are animals that will go and like inhabit other shells and like so it's not an
[05:33] Ridiculous concept that you would just go out and like find a shell and and live in it and on some level. Yeah like
[05:40] Technically the definition of a species is the ability to you know to procreate right and you could probably fairly easily
[05:48] Splice their genes and make it happen in a test tube, right? But because of the shell the actual
[05:54] Active intercourse between a slug and a snail is not gonna be possible, right?
[05:59] Okay, hmm. What would think but I assume that their genes are probably fairly close
[06:04] Maybe they're pretty creative though, and they could
[06:08] like
[06:10] Do they um
[06:13] Life does find a way. Yeah, I wonder I have no idea about slug slash snail
[06:19] reproduction today
[06:21] Have coitus or do they lay eggs and you know by and fertilize?
[06:26] Yeah, exactly. Yeah, I
[06:29] Don't know us. We'll find out. I assume like I guess I sort of assume this slugs get busy
[06:36] Yeah, kind of like worms. Yeah, right like worms have the like weird cloaca thing. Yeah, I would assume a similar
[06:45] architecture
[06:46] But snails, I don't not like I assume it's a sloppy sex. That's all I assume. Oh, it's definitely that you think there's it
[06:55] In cold in Coalson's world. It's like a really
[06:58] You know, they wait until the lights go down and then they take their shell off. It's like a big
[07:05] Intimate moment, that's right. Yeah, and everybody's already wet. You know what I'm saying?
[07:09] So
[07:21] This snail is buying a car and
[07:27] You know
[07:28] Transactions almost done. He says hey before I before I pay you the money. Can you paint a big s on my?
[07:35] my back windshield and
[07:38] The guy's like sure but why and he goes because I want everybody to say look at that s car go
[07:46] That's old school, man
[07:53] How about this one what do you what what is a slug I don't know it's a snail with a housing problem
[08:12] She's gonna be delighted that that she was right. I just said like, you know
[08:16] So they're both gastropods
[08:19] Gastropods are those mollusks aashed
[08:21] Gastros meaning stomach and POTUS meaning foot
[08:25] Okay, they belong to the taxonomic class of invertebrates within the phylum of mollusca
[08:31] And they're the only snails and slugs the only gastropods that can be found on land
[08:37] Okay, so clear nice closer related
[08:41] Both
[08:43] Beautiful creatures. I mean just lookers. I'm so glad to get these up-closes here
[08:50] So the class is gastropod the phylum. Okay, so slugs are actually mollusks too that throws me off
[08:57] I thought that you had to have a shell to be a mollusk
[09:01] Mmm goes to show what I know. I've I've I'm the first person to ever lose non-debutal
[09:07] It's too bad they have an internal shell at times a vestigial or a reduce size
[09:18] So I guess they actually do have a shell
[09:22] Interesting
[09:24] Well, I mean it is really well, I mean ants have exoskeletons. We have endoskeletons, right? I mean, yeah, that's true. Good point
[09:32] Yeah, good call them. I like how they ended the article that I'm looking at is it's like all about oh, yeah
[09:40] Animals cool at the very bottom picture of like classically made escargot. Yeah
[09:49] Love it. Um, so it says here that there's
[09:55] About
[09:57] 85,000 different species of gastropods is that
[10:05] Sure
[10:06] That sounds it. I mean of all the ones that I've
[10:10] If you guys haven't stumbled across this yet, do you want to wager a guess on how long slugs and snails live?
[10:17] Mm-hmm. Oh, yeah, let's can you give me an under over over under?
[10:22] You want me to set a betting line when I know the answer
[10:25] Okay, I'll set the betting line and then and then Jason can guess okay
[10:30] I'm gonna say that it's three and a half weeks
[10:35] Oh
[10:38] Definitely over
[10:40] Do Jason for bonus points? Would you like to wager a guess on?
[10:45] average lifespans
[10:48] I'm gonna go
[10:49] Years five years. It's pretty solid
[10:52] So one to six for slugs two to three in the wild for snails and but here's what's interesting
[10:59] Apparently captive snails can live up to 15 years. You can have a legit pet snail
[11:06] Really, huh? Who knew?
[11:09] Pet snail know what I'm good
[11:14] You know people keep them in there like aquarium and stuff like that
[11:17] They're like good for like keeping the queen sure
[11:19] I just thought they eventually got ate by the frogs or something, you know, whatever real animal you actually wanted in the aquarium
[11:27] Whoo, the speed of a common snail is about one millimeter per second
[11:33] Land snails use love darts
[11:36] Love darts are both formed and stored internally in a dart sack
[11:41] Love darts are made in sexually mature animals only and are used as part of a sequence of events during courtship before actual mating
[11:49] I still don't know what a love dart is
[11:53] Thanks Wikipedia slugs
[11:56] Are hermaphrodites
[11:57] Yeah, snails are to you. Yeah, there you go
[12:04] Okay, interest that makes life
[12:08] Prior to copulation each of the two snails or slugs adopts
[12:13] Attempts to shoot one or more darts into the other snail
[12:18] There is no organ to receive the dart this action is more
[12:22] Analogous to a stabbing or being shot with an arrow
[12:25] The dart does not fly through the air to reach its target. However, instead it is fired as a contact shot. That's not the order
[12:34] The exchange of sperm between both of the two land snails is a completely separate part of the mating progression
[12:41] nevertheless
[12:42] Recent research shows that the use of the dart can strongly favor the reproductive outcome of the snail that is able to lodge a dart in
[12:48] Its partner. Gotcha. Okay, so you're that that's just some like weird courtship thing in some I see it
[12:55] introduces a formal like substance that allows
[12:58] More of its sperm to survive. I see so you shoot a dart before you
[13:04] That sounds like some weird subspecies stuff. No, no, no, it seems like it's pretty
[13:09] or at least from what I'm reading is a
[13:12] little bit universal because so what the love dart does is it prevents the
[13:17] Snail that got shot from like killing foreign sperm. Hmm or something like that
[13:25] and then when they copulate I guess they
[13:29] so these snails at least have
[13:34] Each snail has both
[13:38] Sexes genitalia and so you could double
[13:41] Penetration situation and a parent a paired exchange of sperm. Okay
[13:47] But only the one that shot the love dart first or something like that
[13:54] Has a better chance of ultimately fertilizing the eggs, so I'm on Wikipedia here and
[14:00] so once a slug is found a mate they encircle each other and spurvis is exchanged through their
[14:05] protruded genitalia a few days later the slugs lay approximately 30 eggs in a hole in the ground or
[14:12] Beneath the covering object blah blah blah apple fallation
[14:16] Has been reported only in some species of banana slug
[14:20] And one species of dero seris
[14:24] But the penis becomes trapped inside the body of the partner
[14:28] You'll be happy to know
[14:30] Hmm and apple fallation allows the slugs to separate themselves by one or more
[14:36] Or one or both the slugs chewing off the others or their own penis
[14:42] Once the penis has been discarded
[14:45] Banana slugs are still able to make using only the female parts of the reproductive system
[14:51] Don't come back as a slug. I'm just saying
[14:55] That is a rough go. I mean
[14:59] We made a movie called like 127 hours about taking off your arm. How long is that?
[15:07] That is brutal
[15:12] That was awesome, this might be the best
[15:16] I
[15:17] Feel like we need to cut it all I feel different
[15:23] We definitely put the explicit tag