Jon Stewart brought Isabella Rossellini’s work in short films about animal reproduction to my attention this week. She clearly loves how mollusks mate. These are honestly some of the strangest things I’ve ever seen captured on film, and I’m a fan of Werner Herzog (a German language Western film with an all little people cast? Anyone?). Check out the Green Porno website for all of the films. Mollusk films include snail, cuttlefish, limpet, and squid. Also, do not let your mollusk bias prevent you from watching the other films, because they are all equally inexplicable and delightful.
Here’s the snail video.
The Shell and Mantle 
Snails and slugs have some of the weirdest mating habits – like Limax maximus, dangling for hours on a thread of mucus… Said so, I’m not too fond of these videos… They are oversimplified and a little, er, disturbing.
I find watching the actual animals way more fascinating…