Tuesday, April 14, 2015

Bananas


Quite possibly my favorite mollusk, the Pacific banana slug is a simultaneous hermaphrodite with a penchant for staring down photographers. For a creature approaching ten inches in length, they can travel a half of a foot in sixty seconds flat. Add to that a weird single lung (with pneumostome), and you've got yourself one of nature's more fantastic designs. Oregon should really consider a push to replace the flag's beaver with one of these.