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snails and water
At the exhibition's entrance he placed Salvador Dalí's Rainy Taxi ( an old taxi rigged to produce a steady drizzle of water down the inside of the windows, and a shark-headed creature in the driver's seat and a blond mannequin crawling with live snails in the back ) greeted the patrons who were in full evening dress.
These snails float and swim freely in the water, and are carried along with the currents.
The most widely used, complete ingredient list of this era was as follows: short-grain white rice, chicken, rabbit, snails ( optional ), duck ( optional ), butter beans, great northern beans, runner beans, artichoke ( a substitute for runner beans in the winter ), tomatoes, fresh rosemary, sweet paprika, saffron, garlic ( optional ), salt, olive oil and water.
* Add water, saffron ( and / or food coloring ), snails and rosemary.
Adults consume smaller fish ( bluegill ), snails, crawfish ( crayfish ), frogs, snakes, salamanders, bats and even small water birds, mammals, and baby alligators .< ref >
Lewes Brooks, also of biological importance, is part of the floodplain of the River Ouse, providing a habitat for many invertebrates such as water beetles and snails.
In birds, reptiles, and terrestrial snails, metabolic ammonium is converted into uric acid, which is solid and can therefore be excreted with minimal water loss.
Many species also take vegetable matter such as seeds and berries, some ( primarily the larger species ) will take small frogs / lizards, the Eurasian Wren has been recorded wading into shallow water to catch small fish and tadpoles, the Sumichrast's Wren and Zapata Wren will take snails, and the Giant Wren and Marsh Wren have been recorded attacking and eating bird eggs ( in the latter species, even eggs of conspecifics ).
To seal the opening to their shell to prevent water loss, pulmonate land snails secrete a membrane of dried mucus called an epiphragm.
There is decrease in metabolic rate and reducing rate of water loss in estivating snails like Rhagada tescorum, Sphincterochila boissieri and others.
The environment used to support habitat for crayfish, three leech varieties, water insects and snails. There are no ticks on Drummond Island.
It provides a habitat for many other invertebrates such as water beetles and snails.
Other species of animals cling fast to the stones, e. g. caddis fly larvae ( Trichoptera ) and snails, or can only live in the reduced water velocities on the bed of the stream or on stones by having flat body shapes, e. g. stonefly larvae.
Individuals within developing countries who cannot afford proper water and sanitation facilities are often exposed to contaminated water containing the infected snails.
This disease is most commonly found in Asia, Africa, and South America, especially in areas where the water contains numerous freshwater snails, which may carry the parasite.
The osphradium is a patch of sensory cells located below the posterior adductor muscle that may serve to taste the water or measure its turbidity, but is probably not homologous with the structure of the same name found in snails and slugs.
The primary diet items are water beetles, yabbies, water snails, freshwater shellfish, and the like, supplemented with a variety of aquatic plants and a few fish.
Mussel beds, eel grass, snails, crustaceans and fish in the shallow waters around the island provide an important food source for water birds.
Like most warblers, it is insectivorous and also feeds on water snails.
The gillaroo ( Salmo stomachius ), a richly colored species of trout found in the Irish lake, lough Melvin in County Fermanagh, has a gizzard which is used to aid the digestion of water snails, the main component of its diet.
In dry climates snails will naturally congregate near water sources, including artificial sources such as waste-water outlets of air conditioners.
This dye is a rare animal-produced organobromine compound, which the snails make using a specific bromoperoxidase enzyme that operates on dissolved bromide in sea water.

snails and scorpions
Indeed, most of the offensive and defensive toxins that organisms have evolved for shutting down the nervous systems of predators and prey ( e. g., the venoms produced by spiders, scorpions, snakes, fish, bees, sea snails and others ) work by modulating ion channel conductance and / or kinetics.
The Australian Magpie is omnivorous, eating various items located at or near ground level including invertebrates such as earthworms, millipedes, snails, spiders and scorpions as well as a wide variety of insects — cockroaches, ants, beetles, moths and caterpillars and other larvae.
Invertebrate prey of minor importance are spiders and scorpions ( Arachnida ), crayfish and isopods ( Crustacea ), snails, and oligochaete worms.
Also taken are crayfish, snails, spiders, earthworms, scorpions, and centipedes.
With animals, mandrills mostly eat invertebrates, particularly ants, beetles, termites, crickets, spiders, snails, and scorpions.
Their diet normally consists of insects ( such as grasshoppers, crickets, caterpillars, and beetles ), small reptiles ( such as lizards and snakes, including rattlesnakes ), rodents and small mammals, tarantulas, scorpions, centipedes, spiders, snails, small birds, eggs, nestlings, and fruits and seeds like prickly pear cactus and sumac.
The southern short-tailed shrew's diet consists of insects, annelids, vegetable matter, centipedes, spiders, scorpions, mollusks, rodents and reptiles, and it has been known to store snails for the winter.
The Essex fauna includes jellyfish, sea worms, snails, saltwater clams, shrimp, sea scorpions, cephalopods and fish.
Their normal prey consists of beetles, grubs, orthopterans, scorpions, snails, ants and other invertebrates.
While tails are primarily a feature of vertebrates, some invertebrates including scorpions and springtails, as well as snails and slugs, have tail-like appendages that are sometimes referred to as tails.
The park has a role in both ex-situ and in-situ conservation and is home to 400 blackbucks, 2, 000 spotted deers, 24 jackals, a wide variety of snakes, geckos, tortoises and over 130 species of birds, 14 species of mammals, over 60 species of butterflies and spiders each, a wealth of different invertebrates — grasshoppers, ants, termites, crabs, snails, slugs, scorpions, mites, earthworms, millipedes, and the like.
Therefore, voltage-gated potassium channels are targets for a wide range of potent biological toxins from such organisms as snakes, scorpions, sea anemones, and cone snails.

snails and genus
* Arene ( gastropod ), a genus of marine snails in the family Areneidae
* Cleopatra ( gastropod ), a genus of freshwater snails
* Kylix ( gastropod ), a genus of snails in the family Drilliidae.
* Modulus ( gastropod ) a genus of small sea snails
* Anna, a genus of the family of large sea snails Buccinidae
Several species of the genus Achatina and related genera are known as giant African land snails ; some grow to from snout to tail, and weigh.
* Discus ( gastropod ), a genus of snails in the family Discidae
* Perse, a genus of fossil snails in the family Fasciolariidae
* Ganesa ( gastropod ), a genus of marine snails in the family Turbinidae.
For example three species of land snails in the genus Euchondrus in the Negev desert are noted for eating lichens growing under the surface limestone rocks and slabs ( endolithic lichens ).
* Ba Solem, a genus of land snails in the family Charopidae
* Specula ( gastropod ), genus of sea snails in the family Cerithiopsidae
It feeds on molluscs, with the diet dominated by apple snails of the genus Pomacea.
* Livonia ( gastropod ), a genus of marine snails
Cyllene is also the name of an Indo-Pacific genus of snails ( Gastropoda ).
Helix is a genus of large air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod molluscs.
Since snails in the genus Helix are terrestrial rather than fresh-water or marine, they have developed a simple lung for respiration.
Many of these also escape into the wild, where they prey on indigenous snails, such as the Cuban land snails of the genus Polymita, and the indigenous snails of Hawaii.
* Trivia ( gastropod ), a genus of small sea snails in the family Triviidae
Tryonia is a genus of mostly minute freshwater snails with an operculum.
Powelliphanta, common name the amber snails, is a genus of large, air-breathing, carnivorous land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod molluscs in the family Rhytididae.

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