Locomotoring

The other day, I noticed what to me seemed like an odd behavior – a snail had climbed up on a blade of grass. This was Bair Island and an unusually warm May evening here in SF Bay. Then I noticed more of them. The likeliest scenario is the liver fluke or as an eye catchy headline says “Brain-altering parasite turns ants into zombies at dawn and dusk (link)”. I am choosing to think that they are the teenage snails who are out for a thrill, swaying crazily as the grass blades sway hither and thither with the Bay breeze. We know that the Orcas ramming boats are bored teenagers too!