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African Snail Reaches New Zealand
IHE giant African (Madagascar) snail which the Japanese intro iced to some Pacific islands during s war, may have reached New Zea id. A single snail was recently >covered by a Department of Agri- Iture Inspector in a case of shipped from Ceylon. A )se examination is being made for rther snails.
The snail is bisexual and lays up
to 300 eggs in a batch, the eggs hatching within a few hours. It is estimated that a single African snail can produce a population of 11 billion snails in 5 years.