{"id":73663,"date":"2025-08-27T12:24:18","date_gmt":"2025-08-27T03:24:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/aug\/27\/campaign-find-love-left-spiralling-snail-ned-launches-new-zealand"},"modified":"2025-08-27T12:24:18","modified_gmt":"2025-08-27T03:24:18","slug":"new-zealand-launches-campaign-to-find-love-for-rare-and-lonely-left-spiralling-snail-ned","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=73663","title":{"rendered":"New Zealand launches campaign to find love for rare and lonely left-spiralling snail Ned"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nearly all common garden snails have shells that coil to the right but Ned the snail\u2019s left-spiralling shell results in reversed reproductive organs \u2013 a barrier to mating<\/p>\n<p>If you thought your dating pool was limited, spare a thought for Ned, a very rare snail unearthed in New Zealand. Due to a left-spiralling shell, Ned has a vanishingly small chance of finding a mate \u2013 a predicament that has sparked a nationwide campaign.<\/p>\n<p>Nearly all common garden snails have shells that coil to the right but Ned\u2019s left-spiralling shell is like a mirror image, resulting in a flipped shell and reversed reproductive organs \u2013 a configuration that affects <a href=\"https:\/\/royalsocietypublishing.org\/doi\/10.1098\/rsbl.2020.0110\">roughly 1 in 40,000 snails<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/aug\/27\/campaign-find-love-left-spiralling-snail-ned-launches-new-zealand\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nearly all common garden snails have shells that coil to the right but Ned the snail\u2019s left-spiralling shell results in reversed reproductive organs \u2013 a barrier to matingIf you thought your dating pool was limited, spare a thought for Ned, a very rare &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2340,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[265,41,56,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73663","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-animals","category-asia-pacific","category-new-zealand","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73663","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2340"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=73663"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73663\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":73664,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73663\/revisions\/73664"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=73663"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=73663"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=73663"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}