a couple of years ago,I browsed a book about the ability of living out of water.

The author's name is Li Taiwu, a Chinese Professor.. He did very much study on this item. He give many dates and figures . For example, the relation between alive days and temperature  or the oxygen consumption , he  gave the date of days of  many mollusks  specis can live without food





He Jing

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From: "Marcus Coltro" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Saturday, November 18, 2006 4:51 AM
Subject: Lost bag with fresh shells inside


When Jose returned from Fiji in September, American Airlines lost one of his bags. Luckily there was
nothing rare inside, mostly snorkeling gear, some crafts and the worse thing: live shells Jose
collected in the last day - meaning he did not have time to put them on alcohol. He wrapped them on
toilet paper and on his dirt clothes.

After almost two months, when it was decided AA would pay for the lost bag , they called me today to
deliver the bag which was somewhere in the airport in LA! They asked me if I knew how the bag looked
like so I gave them a short description: black, small, long handles, and covered with flies, maybe a
vulture attached to it.

No need to say it was stinky - and hot as hell since today was over 30°C here and it probably stayed
all day long inside the delivery truck. After opening and removing clothes and snorkeling gear from
the radioactive bag, I started looking at the bags with shells inside. Not many shells were there,
enough to make the whole office smell like a tannery.

In a small fabric bag there was some Nerita plicata. Well, when I flushed them for my surprise three
of them were still alive! These guys are very resistant,  I thought they deserved to go back to salt
water so I placed them on my aquarium (although they have the bad habit of escaping from time to
time)

Marcus

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