The African giant snail, also called as the giant tiger land snail, is the largest snail from its family. The Giant Ghana snail is native to the forest of Ghana, Africa. Those snails are hermaphrodites, like almost all pulmonate gastropods. The shells of these snails grow s to 18 centimeters of length with a diameter of 9 centimeters, however, there are also bigger examples.
Those snails lives in tropical condition where they do not have natural enemies. Each of those gigantic snails lays up to twelve hundred eggs per year that causing a big problem in natural habitat for the other, normal size snails that we have used to.
The size does matter in this case, the Giant Tiger snail demolish around 500 kinds of plants and they also eat the stucco and paint on buildings. Those things cause that the local tree snails are threatened or to become extinct.
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April 21st, 2010 at 11:33 pm
gary?
May 17th, 2010 at 12:53 am
When I was in Kenya I seen one of these snails and it was at least twice the size of the largest snail pictured. I would say the snail I saw was 16-18″
June 5th, 2010 at 8:31 pm
I wonder if they are edible? Imagine the bucks they could make selling em if they could be served up to the tourists looking for “delicacies” of different countries. And no green crap to clean off the shells like river snails.
Giant “escargo”.
June 7th, 2010 at 7:05 am
can they be used for escargot?
June 10th, 2010 at 6:48 am
I wouldn’t exactly hold them, but they can be extremely cute!
They’re also more nutritious than beef!
June 10th, 2010 at 11:13 pm
Anyone got a bucket of salt??
June 17th, 2010 at 6:14 pm
Was this article auto-translated from another language or something? The writing is terrible.
June 23rd, 2010 at 2:06 pm
aww how i miss africa these taste great in tomato soup.
July 8th, 2010 at 9:08 pm
ohh! I am impresed!
November 2nd, 2010 at 2:52 pm
if I can keep these things I might probably keep one
January 17th, 2011 at 9:57 pm
Right this moment, I acquired a second-degree burn and journey to the emergency room as a result of a baked potato exploded in my hand.
January 31st, 2011 at 11:42 pm
I have them!