It's official. Postal delivery is as slow as snails, at least in Poland. An IT worker, after receiving a letter on January 3 that was sent on December 20 as priority mail, calculated that a snail would have made it even faster to his home than the letter.
They feed on most things that come their way, from coconut leaves to flowers.
http://www.ibnlive.com/news/african-giant-snails-give-kerala-the-nightmare/49338-3.html
A businessman in South Africa, Robert Oktober, has come up with a unique way of turning a pest into a plus.
http://www.ibnlive.com/news/getting-snail-wise-in-south-africa/24701-7.html
Eating raw or half-raw snails has led to almost 40 people in Beijing coming down with meningitis.
http://www.ibnlive.com/news/snails-cause-meningitis-in-beijing/19180-17.html
The giant snails, originally from Kenya and Tanzania, were first spotted in a Kerala village four years ago.
http://www.ibnlive.com/news/giant-african-snails-romp-kerala/17744-11.html
For a UP Dalit tribal community - The Mushahars - it's one meal a day, sometimes rice and a basic diet of snails.
http://www.ibnlive.com/news/cit-journo-tribals-survive-on-snails/14943-3.html
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