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Into the wild….for a day

More snail news coming right up! It is time to update you on how these fellas are doing in the new houses we kindly accommodated for them. So, allow me to suggest you sit down and relax while I explain. Let’s get down to business.

After our epic researchers fought nature trying to get both our snail ecotypes, we had enough to continue with our light and plastic pollution experiments.  Although, the results we have been getting on these experiments haven’t been the ones we were kind of expecting so that gave us food for thought (and for wonder once more).

Therefore, after talking about new ideas with our supervisor- which I might say he does know how to take us out of our comfort zone- we designed a new experiment to get different results by putting bait on both sides of the tank but only installing lights on one side, in order to see what would be the snails choice. This setup was looking very good and we got our hopes up high again.

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Picture 1: Photos of the new light experiment.

After all this hard work we were finally given a free afternoon where the team got to relax and we went on a boat trip to Koster where we walked around and enjoyed the stunning landscapes.

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Picture: Half of the snail-team appreciating the sun and the marine breeze in their faces. From left to right: Marina Ortega, Raquel Ruiz and Hayley Campbell.

The world is saved once again (but maybe not Liam’s phone though, pray for it).

Expect an updated snail mail in the upcoming days! 

See u soon.

Marina Ortega.

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