Bullia spp, The Surfing Snail

[r05km]

 I checked the archives but I don't think this has come up before.

No pictures sadly, but Bullia's are a group of largish yellow sea snails from South Africa with a pretty cool ability. They can, quite literally surf. Being scavengers, whenever anything tasty (like a rotting fish) washes up on shore, there's a rush to get in there and chow down,

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[pastoral]

i would love to see a video or photo of this !

[jinkun2702]

Wow, watching them feed was so surreal. They're actually quite fast. I'd run from a bunch of those at the beach for sure.

[r05km]

Oh, wonderful! In a rather gruesome sort of way.

[matanai]

I googled bullia snail and the first result I got was... this post. XD Quite strange.

Didn't find pictures though...

[r05km]

it's odd that there don't seem to be any pictures or anything. I'm fairly sure Bullia came up as part of the Blue Planet documentaries but I can't even find that.

[tetrabinary]

All I got were purdy shell pictures:

[logansrogue]

I love shells. I collect them here in Perth. We have lots of pretty shells on our beaches if you know where to go. I'm bugnuts for seashells.

THOSE are some pretty shells.

[vandigo]

osm

[toriaa]

http://vodpod.com/watch/525819-plough-snail

coooooool!

[chyroptera]

Awww, they're so cute! Thanks for the link!