It is possible to spot sloths and pink dolphins from the glass-walled comfort of a sleek vessel furnished with a barman called Robinson and a menu of rainforest delicacies (the giant river snails are a surprising highlight).
Meanwhile, Crassus attempts to seduce his own slave, Antoninus (Tony Curtis), with a creepy metaphor about whether he prefers eating oysters or eating snails.
As a disease that only affects specific populations living and working near water with freshwater snails, schistosomiasis requires precise mapping of endemic areas.
You'll go early morning to the fish market for the freshest catch, and cook authentic stuff such as snails.
After trying the delicacy – which looks like snails – Ukrainian student Dasha Khabarova told the BBC: "It's salty on the inside and very sweet on the outside.
The snails, the pursuit of two scientists, get locked away behind the fence of a self-destructive community led by a charismatic blood-haunted Manichee.
An entire ecosystem, including crabs and snails, lives off the shrimps and clams.Growth is faster here than on the rest of the sea floor.
They are disdained for their diet, of whatever will keep them alive, including snails, worms and rats.
And, for snails, Cupid's arrow is no metaphor.
Snails often mate with several partners before laying eggs, and it is thought the dart's coating also serves to reduce the chance of re-mating, perhaps by causing more sperm to be stored.
Nonetheless, the Israeli and Algerian snails are probably roughly as old as those in the Grotte des Pigeons.That the same snail species, Nassarius gibbosulus, was used to make the beads in both of the previously excavated Mediterranean sites is curious, but could have been a coincidence.
