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WE were keeping some snails (Helix pomatia} without food, under a bell-jar with a wide tubulure at the top ; in the tubulure was a cork bearing a thermometer. We found that the snails ate the cork, so, to protect it, we covered it with a thick layer of red Harbutt's plasticine. To our surprise, the snails ate away a large amount of the plasticine, and produced fæces consisting of plasticine ‘mouth-fuls’ loosely stuck together into irregular cylinders.
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CLEMENTS, D., HOWES, N. & WELLS, G. Is Plasticine Edible?. Nature 131, 330 (1933). https://doi.org/10.1038/131330a0
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