How Fast Is Garden Snail?

The garden snail glides on a single muscular foot using rippling waves of contraction, lubricated by mucus. It can move backwards, sideways, even upside down — but at 0.05 km/h, it can be overtaken comfortably by a person walking backwards.

Garden snails are hermaphrodites — every individual is both male and female. When two snails meet, they exchange genetic material in both directions simultaneously.

• Similar pace to an ant walking
• A walking human is 100× faster