I wanted to see some pictures, this paper has good ones:

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/ece3.10332

If you put your finger in front of a garden slug it may try to eat it, it's a very odd sand-paper sensation but I never knew why.

▲

horacemorace 6 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Garden snails around seattle will absolutely bite you (teeny tiny bite) and draw blood if you let them crawl around on your skin.

▲

eth0up 3 hours ago | parent [-]

Beware of strongyloids. Or apparently to maintain complexity of taxonomy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angiostrongyliasis

Or rat (snail/slug) lungworm

	▲	EdwardDiego 28 minutes ago \| parent \| next [-]
		A teenager in Australia died due to this after eating a dog slug as a dare.
	▲	hedgehog 3 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		Any article with headings "Eye invasion" and "Lumbar puncture" is bound to be a good time.

▲

Sharlin 7 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Analogous to the keratinous denticles in a cat tongue, just much smaller in scale.

▲

deepsun 7 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

"try"? If it's harder than your skin it means it did, not tried.

▲

xboxnolifes 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Just because you succeeded doesn't mean you didn't try.

▲

hedgehog 6 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

It may have gotten a nibble but empirically I still have a finger :)

▲

dylan604 5 hours ago | parent [-]

Doesn't mean you were not bitten though.

	▲	recursive an hour ago \| parent [-]
		If it wasn't accidental, that bite represents an attempt to bite.

▲

ozyschmozy 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

A steel door is certainly harder than my skin and also certainly can't be used to "bite" me or puncture my skin (save for crushing it given enough force)

▲

jayd16 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Just because it's harder doesn't mean it necessarily has the strength to tear off skin.

▲

aiisjustanif 6 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Well that was more disturbing than I thought it would be.