| DISCLAIMER: This article does NOT condone harming Molluscs or intend to be used as a guide to harming Molluscs. Molluscs have a right to life as much as you or I do. Except for when they savage our Allotment.
Slugs. How intelligent are they?. It's a question that has baffled scientists for a very long time.
And through quiet contemplation, I think I may have made a break through into a possible method to discover if these creatures are really overlords observing us or they just simply enjoy terrorising the average Gardener.
As you probably already know, the Mollusc tends to enjoy munching as much Plant life as possible to eventually come to a certain doom by either being eaten by Foul, drowning in Beer, fried by the Sun or worse still dissolved to death by the evil that is Salt.
The strange thing is, like us Monkies. Slugs tend to be partial to eating certain Plants and not others, which must mean that they probably think about what they eat and almost certainly will lay their offspring near a source of the best food available in the vicinity. So we can now assume that there is some intelligence to Slugs and what their weakness is. Something we can utilise to answer the all important question. /me Rubs hands together
Now picture this, if we place a Slug in a large sealed Jar with enough Cabbage to provide it with Air to breath and the occasional tidbit to nibble on. Would the Slug then go on to savage its supply, lay eggs and sentence itself and its future generations to a rather slow painful end. Or would it simply moderate itself and continue to live a reasonably long and rather boring life? (you heartless bastard)
Now imagine the Universe as a Jar. |