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doomey | 17:02 Mon 14th Aug 2006 | Animals & Nature
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why do snails and slugs leave a slimey path behind them?
how do they do it , and why?
does it use up any of their energy?
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Some info on this page.
As for their energy the use 70% of it producing slime.

http://www.madsci.org/posts/archives/feb98/887 302435.Zo.r.html

Another site

http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/science/livingworl d_20060402.shtml
20:09 Mon 14th Aug 2006
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Slugs are snails without a shell and are related to clams and oysters since they are mollusks. The slime is mucous that is secreted by the slug or snail to enable them to move. They crawl on the ventral area of their body and it's called a foot. Their mucous is manufactured and secreted much the same as the mucous you have in your nose and other more unmentionable parts of your body. Any living organism expends energy to move or, in this case, manufacture a substance for its mobility...
20:10 Mon 14th Aug 2006
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Sorry, Kosmic, you weren't there when I started...
20:11 Mon 14th Aug 2006
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How do you No!!?
I was actually doing research.It took a few different sites to get all that information.
20:25 Mon 14th Aug 2006

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