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Why do snails gather around or on top of other dead snails?

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Yes, Snails are cannibals, if that is the right term for it. They eat anything and everything they can find. Let me jot down a few things i have seen them eat. 1. Decaying plant matter 2. Algae 3. Dead fish(including bones and all) 4. read more

Rich Canino is right. Many species are opportunistic carrion feeders, even if their main diet is plant material. Also, they need lots of calcium. hence they often rasp at empty snail shells, and will even attack other living snails just to get at the calcium in their shell. There is a WW2 record of slugs eating a corpse washed up on a Welsh beach. read more

Yes. More specifically, some species of snail are carnivorous, while others are more opportunistic, often eating carrion that may include dead or dying snails/slugs. The most notorious example is the Rosy Wolf Snail, Euglandina, which is native to the SE of the USA. read more

Top Facts about Snails The largest land snail recorded was 12 inches long and weighed near 2 pounds. Garden snails (helix apersa) a top speed of 50 yards per hour, this is about 1.3 cm. read more

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