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/giant-flourescent-pink-slugs-140528983.html

"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.

I want to see them pick up their own slime trail and keep following themselves.

Clodfobble;866644 wrote:

I can't tell you how much I want to see a video of that.

glatt;866647 wrote:

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.

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.)

Too funny - I considered posting this, too! Great minds . . .

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".

Clodfobble;866644 wrote:

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.

ZenGum wrote:

"I will #$%& you up".

btw, all of your weirdos in this thread are on report--you know who you are.

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.

glatt;866647 wrote:

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.

Sundae;866979 wrote:

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.

except for the dying part.

BigV;867943 wrote:

except for the dying part.

Yes. Unfortunate that.

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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By the way, they're not strictly terrestrial, but arboreal too. Check out this trapeze artiste and failed scout bus stowaway:
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Where's my salt shaker..

No.
Slimy things are not allowed to dangle. It is an aberration and must be destroyed.
Unless you are Sir David Attenborough and make slug-porn sound like M&S adverts.

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SPUCK;868565 wrote:

Where's my salt shaker..

:lol2:

SPUCK;868565 wrote:

Where's my salt shaker..

Its been a while, is it , lick the salt, slurp the snail, and toss down the tequila?

Griff;868669 wrote:

Its been a while, is it , lick the salt, slurp the snail, and toss down the tequila?

ah, no.

If you're gonna slurp them just like that, you're gonna want the tequila first, and lots of it. more than that, probably. They're pretty gross, and they... linger. Here's the remains of a trail left on the top of my pack. Ew.

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Sundae;868570 wrote:

No.
Slimy things are not allowed to dangle. It is an aberration and must be destroyed.
Unless you are Sir David Attenborough and make slug-porn sound like M&S adverts.

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Whoa.

I know . . . fascinating, entrancing and gross all at the same time.

BigV;868672 wrote:

Here's the remains of a trail left on the top of my pack. Ew.

I grew up in a damp area. We had lots of fog most of the year. Hence, we had bumper crops of snails and slugs.

I don't know how they did it, but the slugs came in our house in the night. They crawled all over the place. In the morning, we could see their trails, but no signs of the slugs themselves.

Every once in a while, though, I would get up in the night to go to the bathroom and step on one of those slimey buggers. Oh would I scream and yell until my mom came and washed off.

We never did figure out where they were getting in the house.