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Tis the end of the snail era…

Hello our dear snail geeks! We have come to the end of the IMBRSea Joint School 2018 and this is very sad news. But let us tell you about the last few days.



Since our last blogpost there is a lot we want to update you on. We have been really busy with finishing the last experiments in the lab. Of course our snails couldn’t have been the same if they hadn’t kept escaping our spa till the very last experiment replicate. Despite their ever-consistent escape antics we got some results!

We have learnt that snails move differently according to their original habitats (dry, splash or wet zone) and the ones that were more active were the ones that originally were in the splash zone, unlike the snails in the dry zone who were less active. We observed that snails become magically “activated” when they are in contact with water, which awakens their desire to move and travel across our tanks and also in the field.

After gathering all of our thoughts and results we locked ourselves in and wrote and wrote till we produced a report with all the results, interpretations and conclusions of the things we have learned about our snails (and ourselves)! If you’re not too keen on reading all the details in our write up… worry not, we have created a great movie documentary that we are incredibly excited to share with you!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dF3rD23nJ0w&t=13s

Thank you all for following our busy and exciting time at Tjärnö Marine Station, for the IMBRSea Joint School. We hope that you have had a good time reading and that you are keen to continue learning :)

That’s all Folks!

Written by Ines Fournon Berodia
Edited by Robyn Murdoch and Elisa Hernandez

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