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So, apparently there are snails that prey on other snails. Meet the rosy wolf snail:

The cover of Science magazine, featuring a fully extended snail with what looks to be an extra set of tentacles on its face, which are really its lips.  Above the snail says 'Biological Invaders!'

You see those weird extra tentacles on the bottom of its face? Those are its lips. It has huge lips because it uses those lips to taste track the trails of other snails down, so it can consume them.

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Date: 2012-01-28 01:39 am (UTC)
cyprinella: corydoras catfish swimming (cory swimming)
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The aquatic version of this is known as the Assassin Snail in the aquarium hobby. People breed them and sell them around at fish clubs and do quite good business as aquatic snails are a pain to get rid of in aquariums.

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Date: 2012-01-28 11:14 am (UTC)
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O_________O meep

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