These are the stuff we have learned along the way. Traditional crab farming, is very, very intuitive”, said Ms Kudus, though she added that WholeSnail is also trying to bring a data-driven view to its functions.
” In the beginning, it’s hard. We build all of our models in-house, because there’s no playbook for crabs out it”.
Her group has also played music for the snails, which are blind but you feel vibrations.
Ms Kudus was also keen to dish out fun facts about the invertebrates, including the number of teeth they have  , – that ‘s , 14, 000, arranged in a semi-circle structure called a radula.
And then there are the various different kinds of filth that they secrete.
One jackets the body’s base to aid in fly. Another helps it agree to surfaces, but another is used for defence.
” When you make them mad, they secrete defensive filth and it forms a thick barrier to deter carnivores”, said Mr Laurenz, who’s really an ornithologist or insect scholar by education.  ,
There’s also mud with hormones, for reproduction.