I’m generally big on wildlife and nature, but the slug is a decidedly unappealing creature. There is nothing here that makes me want to get to know the thing better. I mean, I’m not asking for megafauna charisma, but come on.
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I don't like 'em either, but exploring their niche in ecosystems helped me find interesting by proxy.
Slugs are assholes
parasiteecology.wordpress.com/2016/04/27/slu
and are part of interesting dynamics between plants, ants and worms (particularly among European varieties).
smithsonianmag.com/science-nature
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Well they do get a bad deal in return as well. Everything eats them, sometimes in creatively hideous ways. For example wired.com/2014/09/absurd
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There are other interesting ones in slugs too tho:
"a possible mechanism by which P. hermaphrodita is able to manipulate parasite avoidance behaviour in host slugs is by manipulating serotonergic signalling in the brain" (is related to one in OpenWorm)
sciencedirect.com/science/articl
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