Using freshwater snails and their predators (e.g., crayfish, fish, insects) as a model system, the Hoverman Lab addresses the ecology and evolution of predator-prey interactions (i.e. inducible ...

Rare Hawaiian snails, Achatinella fuscobasis, were reintroduced into the wild in the Ko‘olau Mountains after decades of ...

which protects the snail from predators and prevents it from drying out. Partula snails went extinct in the wild because of another snail species—or rather, two. In 1967, the French Polynesian ...

Trade winds, misty rains, cooling cloud cover and warm sun are things that the snails will learn to adapt to, going forward.

which has snail-friendly habitats and no evidence of the main predators that nearly caused the animal's demise. They will join a small wild population, estimated at a few hundred individuals.

The snails emit light apparently to avoid predators, according to Yuichi Oba, a professor at Chubu University’s Department of Environmental Biology and a member of the research team. Oba ...