Essential Rhythm 3/18/21: Eat like a slipper shell

Published: March 18, 2021, 12:33 p.m.

Producer/Host: Sarah O’Malley This episode describes the unusual eating mechanism of slipper shells, a most unusual snail. Instead of foraging by grazing on microalgae and biofilms, they suspension feed, using mucous to transport food from their gills to their mouths.