Jeremy the lonely, left-coiling snail loses out in love triangle
by Guardian staff and agencies from on (#2Q01K)
A lonely snail who had failed to find a mate because of his unusually-shaped shell has lost out again after two potential suitors hit it off with each other
A lonely snail who had failed to find a mate because of his unusually-shaped shell has suffered further indignity after two potential love interests coupled up with each other, leaving him out in the cold.
The rare snail - named Jeremy - has a shell whose spirals turn in an anti-clockwise direction, meaning that he cannot mate with the majority of the world's snail population who spiral the other way because their major internal organs are located on the opposite side of the body.
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