Animals finding their way home

ByRichard Nissen 26 March 2014 Reading Time: 1 minute

One of our board members, Antonio Nafarrate, has brought this intriguing piece of news to our attention – snakes in the Everglades can find their way home.

As we have always said, there is something going on with animals who find their way home and this is another example.

I have a friend, Jill Moss who lives in Cornwall, who, when her garden was invaded by snails would pick them up and mark them with nail polish and fling them far from her garden over a the wall. She found that they were soon back inside her garden.

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