A snail-eating snake Pareas iwasakii approaching a snail Satsuma c. caliginosa with the defensive shell.

P. iwasakii in the field.

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My research has been featured by Prof. Sean B. Carroll in NY Times, that celebrated the 150th anniversary of the publication of the Origin of Species. But my paper focusing on this topics -speciation- has been under review by a scientific journal... I am so sorry if I am keeping anyone await for reading a detail of the story of "right-handed" snakes and "left-handed" snails. Just a moment (about a half year), please. - 24/Nov/2009

Successful predation on a dextral snail by a snake [1.9 MB]
Unsuccessful predation on a sinistral snail by a snake [2.0 MB]
Unsuccessful predation on a defensive-shelled dextral snail by a snake [2.9 MB]
Other movies are also available. Please contact me: hoso (a) m.tains.tohoku.ac.jp