Press Photo Chris Hudson measures a huge snail found in W. Africa

Shallis alive: at last, Chris Hudson's search for the largest snail in the world is over and what a whopper it is too. Chris, one of the world's leading experts on snails found cee Geronimo in sierro Leone, in west Africa and brought him back along with many other specimens of this animal. However there was trouble ahead for gee because his shell casing was damaged during the flight for Africa to England. Young Christophem spent weeks on end dressing the wound and feeding gee on a special diet, now, Gee has recovered with activity that is astonishing for such a creature, Gee weighs lib. 7cunces, measures 1ft. 1 1/2 inches fully extended and is believed to be about 4 years old. He has already been accepted by the Guinness book of records, he was his predecessor Geronimoi, who was then the existing record breaker. the bonus, Gee Geronimo is it appear in a science feature film before returning to his new home at the London zoo. picture shows Chris Hudson dressing the injury that gee Geronimo obtained during his flight from Africa to England last month.

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