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Old 05-31-2013, 10:11 AM   #1
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May 31, 2013 - Giant Fluorescent Pink Slugs



The eight-inch creatures have been spotted only on Mount Kaputar, a 5,000-foot peak in the Nandewar Range in northern New South Wales.

"As bright pink as you can imagine, that's how pink they are," Michael Murphy, a ranger with the National Parks and Wildlife Service, told the Australian Broadcasting Corporation. "On a good morning, you can walk around and see hundreds of them."

http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/sideshow...140528983.html
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Old 05-31-2013, 10:58 AM   #2
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"We've actually got three species of cannibal snail on Mount Kaputar, and they're voracious little fellas," Murphy said. "They hunt around on the forest floor to pick up the slime trail of another snail, then hunt it down and gobble it up."
I can't tell you how much I want to see a video of that.
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Old 05-31-2013, 11:17 AM   #3
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I want to see them pick up their own slime trail and keep following themselves.
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Old 05-31-2013, 11:23 AM   #4
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I can't tell you how much I want to see a video of that.
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I want to see them pick up their own slime trail and keep following themselves.
The two of you.

I bet the teacher would have to make you sit at opposite ends of the room.
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Old 05-31-2013, 12:18 PM   #5
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Wow, now if we could just crossbreed them with our yellow banana and brown spotted slugs up here in the Olympic National Park we could really get some action. Psychelic striped slugs.(Maybe we could get Monsanto involved and feed them to the French.)
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Old 05-31-2013, 07:06 PM   #6
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Too funny - I considered posting this, too! Great minds . . .
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I bet there's an old Aboriginal story about these things, involving an unfaithful husband, a wronged woman, and a sharp piece of oyster shell. They've been roaming the forest ever since...

Oh and I guess they're poisonous, or venomous, or both. In nature, bright colours mean either "come and get some pollen on ya" or "I will #$%& you up".
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I can't tell you how much I want to see a video of that.
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Being that brightly colored, they have to be extremely poisonous.

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"I will #$%& you up".


btw, all of your weirdos in this thread are on report--you know who you are.
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Old 06-03-2013, 05:17 AM   #10
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Someone should hook little carts behind them that provide solar powered black lights that shine down on them. M'agine seeing a couple of them babies on a moonless night crreeep'in thru the woods.
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I want to see them pick up their own slime trail and keep following themselves.
Ants can do this occasionally. The lead ant accidentally happens on the pheremone trail of the following ants and they march in a circle until they die.
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Ants can do this occasionally. The lead ant accidentally happens on the pheremone trail of the following ants and they march in a circle until they die.
Sounds like politicians.
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except for the dying part.
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except for the dying part.
Yes. Unfortunate that.
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Old 06-21-2013, 12:25 PM   #15
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I've never been to New South Wales (so far...), but I'm acquainted with our local varieties of slugs.

So cute! Smile for the camera! (I think that's a smile...??)
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They come in different colors.
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And they come in other ways too.
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This is what they get when they do.
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