Talk:Slowest animals

Problem with "Slowest mollusk" entry
There are numerous serious problems with this new article and it may be deleted anyway, but as far as the snail section goes: First off, the factoid used is not supported by the reference given, not as far as I can tell. Secondly the garden snail cannot possibly be the slowest mollusk, as there are sea snails of less than 1 mm adult size, and land snails of only a few mm adult size, that will clearly have a much slower speed than the garden snail in mph. In any case the speed of very few mollusks has ever been measured, so this is rather a meaningless statistic. Invertzoo (talk) 15:42, 9 February 2012 (UTC)

The information about the banana slug here and on the page http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banana_slug are contradictory. Here is written that it moves with the speed 0.000023 m/s, whereas in the article about the banana slug there's a value 6 1⁄2 inches (17 cm) per minute which doesn't square. 83.27.50.170 (talk) 09:56, 24 August 2013 (UTC)
 * There is also the problem of the slowest bird. The article states that the slowest flies at 5mph whilst courting, yet we have birds that can hover and some that can fly backwards.Martin4 5 1  00:54, 16 November 2013 (UTC)


 * The banana slug may be the slowest terrestrial slug, but this snail is probably slower; Due to their tiny shell sizes, Zospeum tholussum are extremely slow-moving snails. In a week's time, they may only move a few millimeters or centimeters while grazing, usually in small circles around a given point. 2A02:FE0:C900:1:ADC4:D2C2:F604:A44D (talk) 16:12, 31 May 2014 (UTC)

Organizing this family of articles
The method for this articles is ambiguous as it mixes different things as flight and walking. There should be separated by terrain, including a media of all terrain if wanted and making the tables sortable. Also it should include relative measures to the lenght/weight of the animal. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 190.134.89.210 (talk) 18:14, 3 February 2020 (UTC)