Racing Snails
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Snails are notoriously slow, but snail racing does take place. For more about snail racing visit http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/558515.stm or http://hypertextbook.com/facts/AngieYee.shtml
How ingenious an animal is a snail. When it encounters a bad neighbour it takes
up its house and moves away.
Philemon, Fragment. (c. 300 B.C.)



