Fatass Leopard Slug!

I sped it up so I could get a quicker amount of movement and as was obvious my voice sped up as well. I left it for the lol's, sounds like I'd consumed a good line of cocaine or something!

This fatass was found hunkered inside what has become an observable underground ecosystem, where my parents pulled up a rotting dead plum tree, the hole has become a home for an array of species aside from this pretty little monster, including fowler's toads and burrowing frogs. I wanted to keep this fellow so bad, but a little note of interest: Slugs and other Gastropoda are harbors for nematodes that have been recently blamed for rare but possible contraction of parasitic meningitis and other maladies that are unpleasant.

But what a beauty!

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• leopard spotted slug
• mollusks
• biology
• gastropods
• neat stuff

[thecephalogod]

<3

i met one of these for the first time last night!!!!

it was sooo cool!!!!

i love slugs!

[kilderok]

@thecephalogod Aww good for you! Appreciating nature instead of squashing it like so many people do. B3

[MaryMarie09]

I have one!!! Im keeping as a pet, but mines is not that huges but if he keeps eating the way he does lol he's gonna get fat! lmfao I found him when it was raining and a bunch of geese were stalking him

[kilderok]

@MaryMarie09 LMAO!!! How cute you saved him from the geese! Just remember though, be clean with wild ones as they have the capability to carry and transfer meningitis. :O

[StellarWindElsydeon]

Awesomeslug is Awesome.

[kilderok]

@StellarWindElsydeon

HOW awesome is it??? LMAO 

[xXxKINGLUIxXx]

where's the fuckin' SALT?!?!?!?!?

[GrumpSkull]

Slugs can only understand if you talk slowly...

[christopherronningen]

I love the colors on that one. they are really vibrant. ive grown fond of these guys lately. great video

[comedian618]

I raise leopard slugs, and I have 2 that are actually bigger than this one. There are pretty cool!

[kilderok]

@austin881000 Some people are oblivious to the true wonder and beauty of biology...like something can appear grotesque to the eyes, but think of the way it had to evolve to get that way, what it had to go through to have certain features like musucs membranes or waddles as a feature on their anatomy. Silly people. So judgemental. I think its neat and beautiful personally. Like vulture---they're pretty to me. Because they've evolved in all the ncessary ways to become what they are: clean up crew!

[kilderok]

@katethegreat19 Aww haww....yeah he really was something else! I would have kept him as a pet but slugs run the risk of carrying Meningitis....something I DO NOT WANT! :o

[katethegreat19]

That's really amazing! ^_^