Are Slugs really Smart?

Jane Elizabeth Firth
5 min readOct 19, 2020
Photo Credit: Rudolf-Peter Bakker | Unsplash

The slug is perhaps one of the most unlikable creatures on the planet, right? But maybe I can change your mind..

Oozing slime from behind; a sticky, nasty goo that won’t wash off! I pick a long one up and it shrinks to half its length but twice its width, now making its self fat and squat. I feel the movement across my fingers and the glue that…

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Jane Elizabeth Firth

TRUE STORIES about WEIRD STUFF to MAKE YOU THINK. Jane writes for magazines, and has a lifestyle blog at elizabethwriter.com. She lives on a boat in the U.K.