81. Banana Slug Information on this very large slug from moist forest floors along the Pacific Coast of North America. http://www.naturepark.com/bslug.htm

Banana Slug Ariolimax columbianus Here's a photo peek of this native shell-less mollusk! Banana Slug are Mollusks, which means they are soft-bodied with no visible skeleton. They also belong to the class Gastropoda, which can be recognized by having a muscular foot, a mantle with a cavity, a meaty hump on their back, and a radula (or sand-paper-like grinding mouth parts). They are Pulmonates, which means they have a small lung inside their bodies which opens to the outside with a pneumostone Banana Slugs are the second largest slug in the world, growing up to 25 cm long. They are so named because very often their coloring resembles a banana, bright yellow body with black spots. Solid greenish, pale brown and even almost white specimens can be found locally too. They can change their color slightly over time, becoming more intense or paler as the light, moisture and food allows. These colors help them to camouflage with the leaves on the forest floor. They may be confused with an introduced species, the Black Garden Slug, as it is large and also comes in a brownish color. If you look closely at the Garden Slug, you can usually see an orange-striped edging around the foot and textured furrows on all upper parts of the body except the mantle. The Banana Slug does not have any orange on its body and its body is smooth. The Banana Slug lives in moist forest floors along the Pacific Coast of North America from California to Alaska. It is a decomposer, which means it chews up leaves, and animal droppings and other dead plant material and recycles it into soil. One of their favorite foods seems to be mushrooms. In the process of eating, they also spread seeds and spores.

82. UC Santa Cruz Ultimate The official home of Ultimate Frisbee at UC Santa Cruz. http://www.slugultimate.com/

The official home of Ultimate Frisbee at UC Santa Cruz. Click here to go to www.slugultimate.com

83. Slugweb: Online Storefront Slugweb Online storefront for one of the nation s favorite and bestloved mascots the UC Santa Cruz Banana Slug. Featuring slug tee-shirts, slug hats, http://www.slugweb.com/slugweb/AboutHistory.phtml

Home About Oxford West Slug Club Slug History The Story of the Web's Favorite Mascot. For many years, the banana slug (ariolomax dolichophalus to the world of science) served as the unofficial mascot for the University of California at Santa Cruz campus. It represented many of the strongest elements of the campus: contemplation, flexibility, non-agressiveness and, perhaps above all, an iconoclastistic challenge toward the status quo. Besides, the Banana Slug is indigenious to the region and shares a symbiotic relationship with the California Redwood that populates the scenic campus. In 1986 students demanded that the Slug be blessed with official mascot status. Five years previous to this, the Chancellor at the time had named the Sea Lion to this distinguished post this in an effort to make the campus more mainstream. Well, students would have none of that. They demanded to be associated with the mollusk. They produced t-shirts bearing the Fiat Slug logo (still produced today by Oxford West) and the newly established Student Union Assembly prepared for a vote to see which mascot students prefered. The Chancellor, in his infinite wisdom, refused to have campus money spent on the student referendum; in his mind, the issue was moot. There would be no official Santa Cruz Banana Slugs.

84. UC Santa Cruz Ultimate Frisbee Slug Ultimate Home search. What is Ultimate? High School Recruits Slug Ultimate History Alumni Sean Ryan Award http://www2.ucsc.edu/ultimate/

85. About Slugging A car needing additional passengers to meet the required 3 person high occupancy vehicle (HOV) minimum pulls up to one of the known slug lines. http://www.slug-lines.com/Slugging/About_slugging.asp

Unique Commuter Solution Revised: October 22, 2007 Home HOT Lanes Message Board Events ... Sponsors About Slugging What is Slugging? Slugging is a term used to describe a unique form of commuting found in the Washington, DC area sometimes referred to as "Instant Carpooling" or "Casual Carpooling". It's unique because people commuting into the city stop to pickup other passengers even though they are total strangers! However, slugging is a very organized system with its own set of rules, proper etiquette, and specific pickup and drop-off locations. It has thousands of vehicles at its disposal, moves thousands of commuters daily, and the best part, it’s FREE! Not only is it free, but it gets people to and from work faster than the typical bus, metro, or train. I think you'll find that it is the most efficient, cost-effective form of commuting in the nation. How the Slugging Works The system of slugging is quite simple. A car needing additional passengers to meet the required 3- person high occupancy vehicle

86. Land Snails Of Pennsylvania The top surface of the slug is uniform in pattern, not appearing to be divided into front and back parts (Philomycidae and Testacellidae; the mantle covers http://www.carnegiemnh.org/mollusks/palandsnails/key.htm

Home Species Lists Systematic Alphabetical Land Snail Ecology Slug Key ... Contact Us Development of this site was funded by the generous contributions of Pennsylvanians to the Wild Resource Conservation Fund. The top surface of the slug is uniform in pattern, not appearing to be divided into front and back parts Go to 2 (Arionidae, Limacidae, Milacidae; the slugs whose mantle covers only part of the top) Go to 6 The top surface is heavily mottled or spotted, adults are often large (more than 5cm). Go to 3 The top is blue-gray, tan or very lightly speckled, and adults are often small (5cm or less; Pallifera species). Go to 5 The top is pale, with a tiny shell on the posterior (Family Testacellidae).

87. Leopard Slug Aerial Mating Photos and comments of the amazing mating ritual of the Leopard Slug. http://members.optushome.com.au/awnelson/davidavid/slug/

88. SLUG The term metric slug appears as a footnote in the 1967 seventh ed of Marks Standard Handbook for Mechanical Engineers. On the same page there is a http://engr.nmsu.edu/~etti/winter98/education/gohmann/slug.html

the Technology Interface/winter98 Newtons, Slugs and Kilograms Force from the Technology Interface by Ed Gohmann EGohmann@IUSMail.IUS.Indiana.Edu Purdue University School of Technology New Albany, Indiana The term metric slug appears as a footnote in the 1967 seventh ed of Marks Standard Handbook for Mechanical Engineers. On the same page there is a discussion of kilograms mass and kilograms force. These terms come as a surprise to students who have bee n taught that mass in the metric system was kilograms and force was newtons. They are further awakened when presented with a spring scale calibrated in kilograms, use a Rockwell hardness with loads measured in kilograms or find the term kilogram force in a bearing catalog. Additional concern arises when in a dynamics course they are told to divide the weight of an object by g to obtain its mass in slugs but that the mass in kilograms is not divided by the metric g. Some have difficulty in making the disti nction between the two systems wanting to divided kilograms mass by g. In an effort to clarify the matter the metric slug was revived . Newton’s second law is written as: F= ma with the units for F m , and a consistent to the system of units being used be it English or metric. Some insight into the units to be used can be obtained by first stating that

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