{"id":4092,"date":"2013-06-03T08:01:52","date_gmt":"2013-06-03T15:01:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/plantingseedsblog.cdfa.ca.gov\/wordpress\/?p=4092"},"modified":"2013-06-04T08:35:25","modified_gmt":"2013-06-04T15:35:25","slug":"giant-fluorescent-pink-slugs-mountain-yahoo-com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/plantingseedsblog.cdfa.ca.gov\/wordpress\/index.php\/2013\/06\/03\/giant-fluorescent-pink-slugs-mountain-yahoo-com\/","title":{"rendered":"Giant, Fluorescent Pink Slugs Found on Mountain &#8211; from Yahoo.com"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/plantingseedsblog.cdfa.ca.gov\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/giant-pink-slug.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-4093\" alt=\"giant-pink-slug\" src=\"http:\/\/plantingseedsblog.cdfa.ca.gov\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/giant-pink-slug.jpg\" width=\"407\" height=\"348\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p id=\"yui_3_8_1_22_1369943073290_216\">It would seem to be something you&#8217;d see only in a cartoon or at a Phish concert, but according to park rangers in New South Wales, Australia, dozens of giant, fluorescent pink slugs have been popping up on a mountaintop there.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;As bright pink as you can imagine, that&#8217;s how pink they are,&#8221; Michael Murphy, a ranger with the National Parks and Wildlife Service, <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.abc.net.au\/nsw\/2013\/05\/fluorescent-pink-slugs-and-cannibal-snails-.html?site=illawarra&amp;program=illawarra_afternoons\" target=\"_blank\" data-rapid_p=\"2\">told the Australian Broadcasting Corporation<\/a>. &#8220;On a good morning, you can walk around and see hundreds of them.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The eight-inch creatures have been spotted only on Mount Kaputar, a 5,000-foot peak in the Nandewar Range in northern New South Wales.<\/p>\n<p>Scientists believe the eye-catching organisms are survivors from an era when Australia was home to rainforests. A series of volcanoes, millions of years of erosion and other geological changes &#8220;have carved a dramatic landscape at Mount Kaputar,&#8221; the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/photo.php?fbid=542315909144012&amp;set=pb.334261059949499.-2207520000.1369864223.&amp;type=1&amp;theater\" target=\"_blank\" data-rapid_p=\"3\">park service wrote on its Facebook page<\/a>, and unique arid conditions spared the slugs from extinction.<\/p>\n<p>They &#8220;probably would have long since vanished, if a volcano had not erupted at Mount Kaputar about 17 million years ago,&#8221; Ben Cubby <a href=\"http:\/\/www.smh.com.au\/environment\/conservation\/one-will-really-amaze-you-the-other-just-eats-his-mates-20130528-2n9ik.html\" target=\"_blank\" data-rapid_p=\"4\">wrote in the Sydney Morning Herald<\/a>. &#8220;The result of that eruption is a high-altitude haven for invertebrates and plant species that have been isolated for millions of years, after Australia dried out and the rainforests receded.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>And they&#8217;re not the only unusual inhabitants on the mountain.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;ve actually got three species of cannibal snail on Mount Kaputar, and they&#8217;re voracious little fellas,&#8221; 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