00:00In a few gardens in the south of Cali, the inhabitants manifest against the environmental authority
00:05the presence of several caracoles of large size and colors.
00:10Yes, here in the city of L, in the Conjunto J, there were many big caracoles.
00:16The kids played with them, but they said that they were not to play with them because they were venomous.
00:21Well, I think I have approximately 50 or 60 caracoles,
00:24but they have been detected, because I realized that I didn't know.
00:31The environmentalist, after a visit, found that it was actually a species
00:37called Achatina fulica, more known as caracole african,
00:40a molusco that reaches up to 30 cm long.
00:43Well, the DACMA has already started working with the control.
00:45We did a manual capture that we started last week with the center of zoonosis,
00:52where they are going to eliminate how they should be.
00:56The characteristics of this invertebrate are totally different to our native caracoles terrestres.
01:01It's an exemplar cónico with the punta very enlarged.
01:07It has a series of horizontal franches in its front of its color a bit darker.
01:13According to the biologist Pablo Emilio Flores,
01:15the manipulation with the baby of this animal is caused by diseases cerebrals and intestinales.
01:20The baby of this animal is brought up or hospitable of various human parasites.
01:28Those parasites can be caused by the disease in the human body.
01:33It can also produce meningitis, especially in the children.
01:37One of its characteristics is that it is reproducing a great speed.
01:41It is hermafrodita and is able to store even 1,000 eggs after 1,000 eggs.
01:45All right.
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