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Evolution MegaLab – Snail Research

  • Time taken:
    Upto 30 minutes in your back garden searching for banded snails
  • Impact:
    Contributes to the understanding of how evolution works
  • Cost:
    Nothing
  • Pyjama Rating:
    Day clothes and PJs

Participate in a hunt for banded snails and record down the details of one when you find it. Banded snails are a favourite food of the song thrush and their various shell colours and patterns camouflage them against different backgrounds. But, in some places there are fewer thrushes than there used to be.
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Evolution Megalab would like to discover:
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* Have shell colours and bands changed where there are fewer thrushes?
* Have shell colours changed with our warming climate?
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Send the information off to Evolution MegaLab and so contribute to bio-diversity research throughout Europe in countries like Germany, Spain, France, UK, Hungary, Poland, Austria and Italy.

http://www.evolutionmegalab.org/en_GB

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