I’ll admit that the “1 cm tall” is guesstimated based on my memory of the snails in my garden.
The linked source also mentions that some snails can be up to ten times as fast as the typical 8 cm/min (0.0048 km/h), but those appear to be maritime snails, while the snail in the image seems to be terrestrial.
Your linked source doesn’t appear to list that number (It lists 8 cm a minute).
Perhaps you (or a large language model, if you’re using one) has it mixed up with this:
From this source.
Also, 1 cm tall would be a very small snail… Approximately the size of your smallest fingernail.
8 cm/min * 60 min/h * 1e-5 km/cm = 0.0048 km/h
If I’m not completely mistaken.
I’ll admit that the “1 cm tall” is guesstimated based on my memory of the snails in my garden.
The linked source also mentions that some snails can be up to ten times as fast as the typical 8 cm/min (0.0048 km/h), but those appear to be maritime snails, while the snail in the image seems to be terrestrial.
Oh yeah you’re right 👍
The source I found appears to list the wrong figure.