• daniskarma@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      1 month ago

      They have long mating rituals. Once they are aroused genitals come out of their face/neck and couple together.

      Then they stay like that for hours, like many hours, you cannot separate them because their genitals are so deep inside their body that you’ll may kill them.

      After that they part ways like nothing.

      Source: I have pet snails and have watched them having sex several times. To my defense I also let them watch when I have sex.

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      I believe snails are one of the few truly hermaphrodidic species! they all possess both external and internal organs and reproduce by exchanging both. I’m not a snail biologist though don’t quote me