"Giant pink slugs are about 20 cm long (7.8 inches), only found on top of Mount Kaputar," says Murphy in an interview with
Australian Broadcasting Corporation. "On a good morning, you can walk around and see hundreds of them, but only in that one area."
"As
bright pink as you can imagine, that's how pink they are," he added,
noting that each night they crawl up trees in large numbers to feed on
mold and moss.
But giant pink slugs aren't the only squishy inhabitants unique to
that particular mountaintop. According to Murphy, the forest there is also home to
several cannibal snails, battling it out in slow-motion to see who can eat the other first.
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