The meat car is great rare New Zealand Snail was photographed and put an egg from its neck for the first time, in a great blow of luck.
The Ministry of Conservation, which was running the residents of a prisoner in Paulvanta Augustaand Or Snail Mount Augustus, nearly two decades ago, was examining the routine weight when a small white egg of the snail neck began.
Ingred Goner, who helped manage the families program in his early days, told the “Guardian” that the regional communications of biological diversity, Ingrid Grunner, who helped manage the families program in his early days, said that the clips are “very wonderful”.
“In all the years we do [work]We never faced it. “
Powelliphanta Land is among some of the largest in the world, almost the size of a golf ball, and is found only in New Zealand. It is slow -growing and can live for decades – and it is believed that some of them are held in captivity between 25 and 35 years old. They mostly eat mollusks and earthworms, which they wear like spaghetti.
Groner said the team was “lucky” in picking up the moment. Cipe mature sexually ripe snails at the age of 8 years and lay about five eggs, in the form of a chicken, every year. It can take longer than a year to poverty.
Lisa Flaanagan, a guard who took care of snails for 12 years, said their behavior was very different from the option of the snail presented.
“They are a polar opposite in the pest garden snail that we presented to New Zealand, which resembles weeds, with thousands of birth controls every year and a short life.”
Cath Walker, the major science advisor in the department, said that the lazy snails have developed a genital pores or opened them on their neck so that they can stay in their peel to reconcile eggs and lay eggs.
Walker says: “He extends his penis from this pores and to the pores of his colleague, and his companion does the same thing that exchanging sperm, which they can store until he fertilizes all the sperm they received to create eggs,” Walker says.
Other snails colleagues and lay eggs in a similar way, although some, such as Snail Campell Campbell of Norfolk, was And note the birth of young people.
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The administration has managed a set of snails threatened in refrigerated containers since 2006, when the MINING SOLID ENERIGY company began mining in its only home on the MT Augustus Ridge line, near Westport on the southern island.
The mining proposal generated a public uproar and issues at the time, but it was eventually signed by today’s government.
Nearly 4000 spirals were moved to nearby sites, and 2000 others were used to start a captive colony to increase the limited genetic diversity of species and with the possibility that the transported snails will not survive their new home.
In 2011, about 800 snails accidentally died in a ministry of conservation refrigerator, while controlling the wrong temperature.
The administration said that very little is known about snails before the administration takes them to families and the program is likely to save the types of extinction.
In March, there were 1884 snacks from Hatchlings to adults and 2,195 eggs in captivity. New colonies have been created in the wild but are monitored to ensure that they can form a sustainable group.
