Velington, New Zealand (AP) – Ned is completely beautiful snail. If he had a dating profile, he can read: a good listener, stable houses, love broccoli, seeking love.
But he has already exploited his local capabilities and not because he is picky or unattractive. Instead, it is a common garden snail with an uncommon anatomical problem that ruins his love life.
Nedo sheath coil on the left, not on the right, so it is 1 in 40,000 snails whose sex organs do not match the remaining species. Unless another left snail is found, the young gastropod has a lifetime of unintentional celibacy.
This Dire Prospect has led to New Zealand’s nature lover who in August. Found a snail in his garden to start a campaign to find the perfect match. But the search for Ned’s true love, perhaps predictable, is slow.
Unlikely to meet in the garden
Giselle Clarkson weeded his home vegetable patch on Wairrara his northern island when a snail flows out of leaf greens. Clarkson, the author and illustrator of the nature book, has love for snails and has long been looking for a sintral or left -wing sheath.
“I knew right away that I couldn’t just throw the snail back to the weeds with others,” she said. Instead, she sent her colleagues to her colleagues’ geographic colleagues a photo of a snail depicted near the right -hand digestive gastropod.
The magazine launched a campaign of the whole country to find Ned’s friend, named after the left -handed character in Ned Flanders’ movie Simpsons, which once opened a store called The Leftorium. This explains the male pronouns that are slightly used by Ned, although snails are hermaphrodites with sex organs on the neck and abilities for both egg and sperm.
“When you have a right-handed snail and left snail, they can’t slip and arrange a meeting of their works in the right position,” Clarkson said. “So left powers can only mate with other feet.”
No distant partners are required
The fact that romantic hopes do not necessarily have to be a sex race had to increase Ned’s prospects. However, his receiving remained empty, except for “optimistic misconduct of right snails,” Clarkson said.
“We had a lot of enthusiasm and encouragement to Ned, a lot of people who can associate them and actually want the best as a symbol of hope for everyone who is looking for love,” she said. “But there were no left left left so far.”
Nedo’s romantic troubles have attracted global news, but strict control of New Zealand’s biosecurity means that love for long distance remote relationships is probably not on cards. However, other left snails were lucky through public campaigns to find friends earlier, so Clarkson remains optimistic.
2017 The death of British Sinral Snail Jeremy, named after the left -wing politician and the gardening lover Jeremy Corbyn, led the New York Times an obituary after his two -year life.
The pursuit of finding left -handed Jeremy friends who encouraged two promising matches that initially prefer each other. But Jeremy eventually hung it, and until his death-56 offspring-all they were correct.
For scientists, it was a fascinating opportunity to investigate what was producing the left snail, and the reason was probably a rare genetic mutation. Snail farms research in Europe has led to investigators to evaluate about 1 in 40,000 snails are left -handed.
Probably not rom-com
Without the presence of Nedo in the reservoir Clarkson’s living room, a quiet life of friendship and existential issues was again recorded.
“Perhaps snails have no concept of loneliness,” Clarkson found himself in thinking. And what if Ned thought to be alone?
But the young snail feels its prospects, Ned probably has time. Garden snails live between two and five years, and its shell shows that he is about 6 months, Clarkson said.
However, she feels pressure to see him romantically fulfilled.
“I have never felt that stress before the overall welfare of the garden snail,” she said. “I almost observe Ned.”