【英语时差8,16】蜗牛

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 No matter the species, mating rituals are pretty weird¹. Take the praying mantis². After an intimate tryst³, the female mantis bites its partner’s head off. But when it comes to sexual hijinks, nothing beats the garden snail⁴. During sex, garden snails⁵ often pierce each other with miniature darts⁶. Any way you slice it, garden snail mating is bizarre. For starters, these members of the mollusk⁷ family are hermaphrodites, meaning that garden snails can both impregnate and become pregnant. Furthermore, since only a small part of a snail’s body extends outside its shell, it carries both sets of genitals–male and female–up front near the head.