Boldness in individuals linked with shell shape protectiveness in pond snails

(Phys.org)—A team of researchers affiliated with Lund University in Sweden has found that "bolder" snails from a local pond tended to have stronger, more protective shells than their meeker peers. In their paper published in Royal Society Biology Letters, the team describes how they raised snails, measured them and also tested for boldness, and what their findings may mean for the phenotypic compensation' hypothesis.

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