Rare New Zealand snails are recorded for the first time laying egg from the door

Wellington, New Zealand – Strange reproductive habits of great, carnivorous New Zealand The snail was once taken to a mystery. Now the snail shots that lie from the door was recorded for the first time, on Wednesday, it cited the country’s protection agency.

What looks like a tiny kokol’s egg is seen as it appears from the opening under the head of the snail Powelliphant August, the threatening kind of endemic to New Zealand.

Video was recorded in the building on the west coast of the southern island, where to preserve rangers trying to preserve species from extinction They care about the population of snails in the cooled containers for almost two decades.

Terms in containers are imitated by alpic time in their only former habitat – the western coast of the southern island, which was hoarse by mining.

Lisa Flanagan from Warning DepartmentWho cooperated with the creatures for 12 years, said the species continue to keep surprises.

“It’s extraordinary that we spent worry about snails all the time, this is the first time we saw one lying egg,” she said in a statement.

Like other snails, Powelliphanta Augusta are hermaphrodites, which explains how creatures can play when they fit in a hard shell. Invertebrate uses genital pores on the right side of your body, just below your head, to simultaneously exchange semen with another snail, which is stored until each egg creates.

Every snail lasts eight years to achieve sexual maturity, after which they care about five eggs a year. The egg can last more than a year for a trip.

“Some of our captured snails are between 25 and 30 years old,” Flanagan said. “The polaries are opposites in the kindergarten of pests in the spinner of the ferrets we presented in New Zealand, which is like weed, with thousands of offspring every year and a short life.”

Dozens of species and subspecial of Powelliphanta are located in New Zealand, mainly in robust forest and lawns where they are endangered by loss of habitats.

They are the Meonivors that descend countries like a noodle, and are some of the world’s largest snails, with excessive, characteristic granamas in a series of rich earth colors and vortices.

Powelliphanta Augusta was the center of public ruin and legal proceedings in early 2000s, when the plans of the energy company for my coal threatened to destroy the habitat.

About 4,000 removed from the page and moved, while 2,000 were housed in the chilled warehouse in the west coast of Hoktics to ensure conservation of species, and cannot be well grown and is not well adapted to new habitats.

In 2011. years, some 800 snails accidentally died in the refrigerator protection department with defective temperature control.

But the slow survival of the species continues: in March this year there were almost 1,900 snails, and almost 2,200 eggs in captivity, the conservation agency said.