Pearl Producing Snail Being Guarded
Tight security is being imposed at Birmingham’s National sea life Center in Britain to protect a giant sea snail.
The giant zebra snail or Melo melo measures 20 times the size of the usual British garden snail.
The snail produces rare and valuable pearl that can be fetched anything from 5,000 to 30,000pounds each.
The snail can make any object that gets inside its shell a pearl and the biggest recorded pearl that it made was the size of a golf-ball.
Mr. Graham Burrows, the curator of the aquarium / museum said that they need to be vigilant because some unscrupulous people might attempt to kidnap the snail hoping that its shell contains hidden treasure. There were also CCTVs installed in the different areas of the vicinity for additional security measures.
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