Trying to get one of those birds and the snails together is problematic. So I suspect that some type of wading bird, with a cargo of stowaway snails tucked into its feathers, was blown off course by a storm and deposited the snails on these islands. - Richard Preece Quotes
Trying to get one of those birds and the snails together is problematic. So I suspect that some type of wading bird, with a cargo of stowaway snails tucked into its feathers, was blown off course by a storm and deposited the snails on these islands. Richard Preece
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I think because they live in trees and are particularly sticky, they're prone to being carried by birds. - Richard Preece Quotes

I think because they live in trees and are particularly sticky, they're prone to being carried by birds.

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Darwin stuck snails on ducks' feet and submerged them in seawater and found them to die quickly on exposure. - Richard Preece Quotes

Darwin stuck snails on ducks' feet and submerged them in seawater and found them to die quickly on exposure.

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Traveling to the South Atlantic is quite problematic for a very pedestrian snail. - Richard Preece Quotes

Traveling to the South Atlantic is quite problematic for a very pedestrian snail.

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One of the species on the Azores returned to Europe. It seems that having got there in the first instance a very long time ago, it relatively recently migrated back to Europe. - Richard Preece Quotes

One of the species on the Azores returned to Europe. It seems that having got there in the first instance a very long time ago, it relatively recently migrated back to Europe.

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This clearly has nothing to do with human agency. These dispersal events happened long before humans were around. - Richard Preece Quotes

This clearly has nothing to do with human agency. These dispersal events happened long before humans were around.

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 Events
Trying to get one of those birds and the snails together is problematic. So I suspect that some type of wading bird, with a cargo of stowaway snails tucked into its feathers, was blown off course by a storm and deposited the snails on these islands. - Richard Preece Quotes

Trying to get one of those birds and the snails together is problematic. So I suspect that some type of wading bird, with a cargo of stowaway snails tucked into its feathers, was blown off course by a storm and deposited the snails on these islands.

Richard Preece

 Trying
Land snails, which we normally think of as being rather slow moving, can actually disperse enormous distances by hitching rides on birds. - Richard Preece Quotes

Land snails, which we normally think of as being rather slow moving, can actually disperse enormous distances by hitching rides on birds.

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It must have gotten there, we think, on some sort of migrating bird. - Richard Preece Quotes

It must have gotten there, we think, on some sort of migrating bird.

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