{"id":779912,"date":"2026-09-23T11:24:09","date_gmt":"2026-09-23T11:24:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/779912\/"},"modified":"2026-09-23T11:24:09","modified_gmt":"2026-09-23T11:24:09","slug":"rare-snails-lay-eggs-on-drive-from-wales-to-wingham-wildlife-park","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/779912\/","title":{"rendered":"Rare snails lay eggs on drive from Wales to Wingham Wildlife Park"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Despite their slow reputation, the breeding efforts are off to a flying start, Eden said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I brought 24 snails back from Wales at the start of July,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It was a six hour drive, and by the time I&#8217;d arrived back at the park I had about 12 egg pods in the carry containers that we were using. They&#8217;d laid eggs literally whilst we were driving.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We started, with one of the ponds, with just six adult snails. We recently moved 130 babies out of that pond to start a new colony.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Despite their slow reputation, the breeding efforts are off to a flying start, Eden said. &#8220;I brought 24&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":779913,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[90,56,54,55,4407],"class_list":["post-779912","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-science","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/779912","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=779912"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/779912\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/779913"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=779912"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=779912"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=779912"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}