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'''Slugs''' are small slimy creatures, part of the of the class Gastropoda in the [[mollusk]] family, which live in dark places. The typical shell of a mollusk is reduced to a thin plate embedded in the tissues. Slugs live in every part of the world, and are found in thousands of different species.
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'''Slug''' refers to many species of terrestrial gastropod [[mollusk]] found world-wide, and characterized by the lack of a visible shell.
  
 
== Description ==
 
== Description ==
  
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Slugs vary in size but range from 1 inch in length to 2 ft (several recent discoveries of Amazon species have reportedly been as large as 2ft <ref>Rosebotham. M (2008) - slugs of the rain forest</ref>), slugs have antlers or "antenna" which are their sensory organs, but are essentially blind, and non-sentient beings, incapable of any intelligent thought or reasoning. Slugs range in color from being white to illumines, which has lead to scientific research for the possible usages of this to be applied in animal farming of beef. 
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Slugs vary in size but range from 1 inch in length to 7 inches long<ref>http://ohioline.osu.edu/hyg-fact/2000/2010.html</ref>)
 
    
 
    
 
== Diet ==
 
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Most species of slug eat decaying plant material or fungi; several species eat living plants, while a few more are carnivorous, eating earthworms and other slugs.  
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Slugs are herbivores, eating grass, roots, and many kinds of vegetables. They have a chambered stomach similar to snails.
 
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== Social Order ==
 
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Slugs have no social order as they lack the intellect and cogitative ability, but are very territorial and engulf non-native-species or "unfamiliar species" of slug in a gelatinise secretion, which can suffocate any non-native-species invading a dominate slugs territory.  
 
  
 
== Reproduction ==
 
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Slugs are [[hermaphrodite]]s, having both female and male reproductive organs. Several days after fertilisation, around 30 eggs are laid in a hole in the ground, usually covered by something solid, like a fallen log, away from direct sunlight and predators.
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Slugs are [[hermaphrodite]]s, having both female and male reproductive organs. Several days after fertilisation, around 30 eggs are laid in a hole in the ground or underneath something solid such as a rock or log, away from direct sunlight and predators.  
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==  Origins ==
 
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Consistent with their view that the fossil record as a whole does not support the evolutionary position, creationists state that there is a lack of transitional fossils showing an evolutionary origin of slugs:
 
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The gastropod family is alleged to have evolved from either the mollusc....
 
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However, there are no fossils of animals which appear to be intermediate between mollusc and slugs. If modern slugs really did come from it, all this shows is the same as we see happening today, namely that slugs come from slugs.
 
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According to the origins theory model used by [[young earth creation scientists]], modern slugs are the descendants of the two founding members of the modern Slug that were taken aboard [[Noah's Ark]] prior to the [[Great Flood]]. It has not yet been determined by baraminologists whether slugs form a holobaramin or if all these species are in fact apobaraminic or polybaraminic.
 
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After the Flood, these two slugs bred from the Ark passengers migrated across the global and into the sea. There is debate whether this migration happened over land with lower sea levels during the post-flood ice age, or before the supercontinent of Pangea broke apart. The idea that God simply generated slugs into existence there is considered by most creation researchers to be contra-Biblical.
 
  
 
== References==
 
== References==

Revision as of 05:52, November 27, 2010

Slug refers to many species of terrestrial gastropod mollusk found world-wide, and characterized by the lack of a visible shell.

Description

Slugs vary in size but range from 1 inch in length to 7 inches long[1])

Diet

Most species of slug eat decaying plant material or fungi; several species eat living plants, while a few more are carnivorous, eating earthworms and other slugs.

Reproduction

Slugs are hermaphrodites, having both female and male reproductive organs. Several days after fertilisation, around 30 eggs are laid in a hole in the ground or underneath something solid such as a rock or log, away from direct sunlight and predators.

References

  1. ↑ http://ohioline.osu.edu/hyg-fact/2000/2010.html
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