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Most land snails eat plants and other vegetation. Snails eat mostly living plants as well as decaying plants. They also chew on fruits and young succulent plant barks. Snails also eat algae. A snail has something called radula in its mouth for grinding up its food. This radula is like a rough tongue, something like a file with rows of tiny teeth, which it uses to scrape off leaves and flowers to eat. Snails can also gnaw through limestone. They eat the little bits of chalk in the rock, which they need for their shells (calcium). Many people get upset and farmers get angry when snails eat their plants and crops. Snails can cause serious damage to crops.

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Snails will eat leaves (a fight between snail and gardener) and even decaying plants. They also will eat soft chalk in rocks because they need it to keep their shell healthy. They chew fruits and succulent plant barks as well as some algae. They have radula in their mouths (rough tongue) to grind the food.

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Land snails have a lung that works almost the same way as a humans. The lung is opened to the outside by a hole called a pneumostome, on the right side of the body. It opens to inhale or exhale and closes to keep from drying out. Oxygen enters into the snails body from the air within the mantle cavity.

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Snails do not have any mouth parts or teeth. Instead, they use a rasping tongue or radula to consume food.

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They eat chicken wings.

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