The Akron Zoo announced that hundreds of Partula snails have traveled to Tahiti to be reintroduced in the wild.
Two zoo employees went to Tahiti in mid-September to release 1,100 snails bred at the Akron Zoo in the wild, according to a news release from the zoo.
The snails play a major role in the ecological system of the French Polynesian Islands by feeding on decaying plants in the forest.
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