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garden snail Helix aspersa
length weight top speed (crawling) feels like
3.3cm 12g 0.1km/h 2.7km/h

Garden Snails move by gliding along on their muscular foot, which is lubricated with mucus and covered with epithelial cilia. This motion is powered by succeeding waves of muscular contractions that move down the ventral of the foot. This muscular action is clearly visible when a snail is crawling on the glass of a window or aquarium. Snails move at a proverbially low speed (1 mm/s is a typical speed for an adult). They produce mucus to aid locomotion by reducing friction, and the mucus also helps reduce the snail’s risk of mechanical injury from sharp objects. This means that they can crawl along sharp objects like a straight razor and survive without injury.

Animals: land air water insect Your height: 122 cm 124 cm 127 cm 130 cm 132 cm 135 cm 137 cm 140 cm 142 cm 145 cm 147 cm 150 cm 152 cm 155 cm 157 cm 160 cm 163 cm 165 cm 168 cm 170 cm 173 cm 175 cm 178 cm 180 cm 183 cm 185 cm 188 cm 191 cm 193 cm 196 cm 198 cm 201 cm 203 cm feet meters Graph: top speed feels like

Imagine what it's like for a tiny insect to jump and fly as quickly as they do. They might cover 40 body lengths in a second. To a six-foot person that's 164 mph. This site tries to understand how it feels to move like a fly, a squirrel, a cat, a rhinocerous, or a falcon.

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