alt Hacker NewsI wanted to see some pictures, this paper has good ones:
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/ece3.10332
If you put your finger in front of a garden slug it may try to eat it, it's a very odd sand-paper sensation but I never knew why.
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Sharlin • yesterday at 5:16 PM
Analogous to the keratinous denticles in a cat tongue, just much smaller in scale.
deepsun • yesterday at 5:18 PM
"try"? If it's harder than your skin it means it did, not tried.
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aiisjustanif • yesterday at 5:55 PM
Well that was more disturbing than I thought it would be.
Garden snails around seattle will absolutely bite you (teeny tiny bite) and draw blood if you let them crawl around on your skin.