what is the fastest snail in the world ?

Answer 1

One on a rocket to the moon!!

Answer 2

Helix aspersa (Muller, 1774) (syn. Cornu aspersum)- Shell pale brown or yellow, usually with extensive darker banding and blotching. Shell is about 30mm large but shell size and colour are very variable. The flesh is grey, grey-green, brown, or almost black. This snail is known as the archetypal garden snail, it is common in the south, and a very successful introduced species. These snails take 2 years to grow to full size. They, like Achatina fulica, are prevalent worldwide due to mostly accidental introduction - Europe, the Middle East, North Africa, North and South America. They lay up to 80 3mm clear round eggs which hatch in 2 weeks. In Britain, they are active from April to October. They eat a wide variety of fruits, vegetables, plants, and rotting things. They can live up to 5 years and live in gardens, parks etc. The fastest snail in the world!


The new World Snail Racing Champion following victory in 2006 is a snail called Sidney. He covered the 13 inch course in 3 minutes 28 seconds. Well outside the record time of 2 minutes, set up in 1995, by Archie. Sidney's owner is 6-year-old Emma Hartley of Castle Acre.

Answer 3

The World Almanac and Book of Facts 1999. New Jersey: Primedia, 1998: 572. "Garden snail, 0.03 mph" 0.013 m/s
Branson, Branley Allan. World & I. 11, 5 (May 1996): 166. "A large banana slug has been observed to cover 6.5 inches in 120 minutes. At that rate, a tortoise would seem fleet-footed." 0.000023 m/s
The Guinness Book of World Records 1998. Stanford, CT: Guinness, 1997: 144. "A garden snail named Archie, owned by Carl Branhorn of Pott Row, England, covered a 13 inch course in 2 minutes at the 1995 World Snail Racing Championships, held in Longhan, England." 0.0028 m/s

Answer 4

fastest in what? sprints? flow? only to be threat-free i will grant you with all I were given. MY solutions will be ASSUMING that each and each one ANIMALS ARE an identical length locomotion: land-the cockroach and the tiger beetle are the fastest, it truly is swifter continues to be lower than study air-again (technically) taken by technique of insects. the dragonfly, botfly, hawkmoth are on the genuine. insect flight speeds are poorly understood so the information may no longer be genuine. water-there became one study the position the Whirligig beetle over took all different swimmers by technique of an enormous margin, besides the undeniable fact that this may no longer be precise. to be threat-free i visit persist with the sailfish flow: the owner of the fastest flow is deputed between the jaw-remaining % of the seize-jaw ant, strike of the mantis shrimp, and claw-remaining of the pistol shrimp. the competition between the mantis and pistol shrimp has been stalemated. even as the seize-jaw ant surpass the previous 2, more suitable study are needed % OF ANIMALS IN genuine global: locomotion: land-cheetah water-sailfish air-peregrine falcon flow:same as above i did not comprise easily speeds because it truly is no longer accessible to get an precise degree

Answer 5

1 fired from a snail gun.....ha ha he he

Answer 6

I think thare is not a fastest snale.

Answer 7

One on a motorbike

Answer 8

The one i ate in France! That went down really fast!!!!

Answer 9

Is there a fast snail??????

Answer 10

He's the one in the Ferrari with a big "S" written on it's roof.

People point as he goes past at 180mph and shout...

"LOOK AT THAT ESCARGOT!"