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10 Reasons to Love Slugs: Quick Facts

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Close-up of a Costasiella kuroshimae nudibranch, also known as a leaf sheep, with bright green, leaflike appendages and a white face with black eyes on a green background.
A colorful Felimare picta nudibranch, also known as the regal sea goddess, with blue, yellow, and purple markings, crawls along the ocean floor among algae.
Close-up of several brown slugs eating another slug on a dirt path with small patches of grass, illustrating cannibalism in nature.
Two great grey slugs (Limax maximus) mating while suspended from a slime thread, with bluish-white colored genitalia visible, against a blurred natural background.
Close-up of a red slug, Arion ater rufus, crawling on a dead brown leaf, showing its textured orange body and tentacles.
A Limax maximus, or leopard slug, with a tan body and dark spots, crawls on a green leaf.
Gem sea slug (Goniobranchus geminus) with blue, yellow, and white bands and dark spots on its mantle, photographed on a rocky underwater surface in Thailand.
Green Elysia marginata sea slug with ruffled edges and yellow trim rests on a red, textured underwater surface.
Elysia cf. marginata sea slug after self-decapitation, showing its separated head and body on a white background. The head and body are greenish with black spots and orange edges.
Sammy the Banana Slug mascot in a black UC Santa Cruz T-shirt poses with arms outstretched on a grassy area with trees in the background.
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