"Every gardener knows the temptation – you find snails ravaging your petunias or your lettuce patch, and rather than resorting to chemicals or messy beer traps, you sling the snails into your neighbour's garden and hope they won't come back.

New research shows that this is exactly the right approach – but only if you can throw far enough.

Snails appear to have a homing instinct over short distances, as proved by a famous experiment in 2010 that involved moving snails from the garden they were found in. But research published on Friday shows this homing instinct can be overcome for many snail populations. If the pests are removed by at least 20 metres from their home patch, they will largely be unlikely to return."

-The Guardian

The snail that ate part of my Deleuzian Tropicality diagram was acting upon its homing instinct, traveling back to where it belongs, even if it was mistaken. The second image is from a study by Richard Stafford and Mark Davies looking into this homing methodology of marine snails. The journey and the finishing line both have extreme tortous movements which are split by a long period of smooth journey, there is a move from stiration and smooth states. The chaotic state could be seen as a more rhizomatic and cellular action, mirroring Deleuze's Chaos theories. Chaos being 'a void that is not a nothingness but virtual... it is an infinate speed of birth and dissapearance (Deleueze, What is Philosophy.)