How do snails reproduce?? /copulate?

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How do snails reproduce?? /copulate?

Answer 1

The same way as the birds and the bees

Answer 2

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Most land snails and slugs possess both male and female parts. In some types or species, an individual may behave as either male or as a female they tend to do this for a while. When snails mate, two individuals pull up next to one another, arrange themselves so that the male part of one is opposite the female part of the other, and then each ejects male sperm into the female opening of the other. In a few snail and slug species, self-fertilization occurs, an hermaphroditic individual mates with itself and produces offspring which are clones of its self.

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Answer 3

Snails are hermaphrodites, which means snails carry both male and female reproduction organs. All they need is to find another snail and they are in business.

Some snails go through a courtship of sorts, while others enter into a mating orgy with a bunch of others at the same time.

Either way, joining together, two snails will then produce eggs. Both snails- that is.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/nature/wildfacts/fa...

Answer 4

Very slowly.

Answer 5

Most prosobranch snails have separate sexes (there are males and females of them), as well certain opisthobranch sea slugs as pulmonate land and fresh water snails are hermaphrodites, they have male as well as female genital organs in a genital apparatus.

Mating and fertilisation:

Fertilisation takes place externally in the water only among certain archaic prosobranch snails (Patellogastropoda). Sperm and egg cells are released into the water and fertilisation is a matter of chance.Among the more highly developed snails fertilisation takes place internally in the female or at least in the snail acting as female. For that to be possible, fertilisation has to be preceded by a copulation, during which sperm cells are transferred to the sexual partner.

Hermaphroditic snails can copulate mutually (and usually do so).

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Answer 6

Most snails are hermaphrodites. This means that they are both male and female. All hermaphroditic snails can lay eggs. They can "mate" with themselves and thus only one can reproduce in an aquarium or pond. They also breed sexually as often as possible. Most snails lay eggs but some, like the trapdoor snail, give live birth. Trapdoor snails and a few other species of snails (apple, golden inca, four horned, etc.) are not hermaphrodites. They can only reproduce sexually.