Yvonne, I would bet they would. You have great skill and intuition when it comes to these shelled beauties...IMHO.
I kinda equate this thinking with that of a butterfly, if a butterfly never has to struggle to achieve the first flaps of the wings they then never learn to fly.....this has been studied in great depth.
I do believe that the old phrase "survival of the fittest" applies for a variety of reasons..... there is a lot that happens when a species strives to survive...survival equals life and life equals living...living in turn allows a species to thrive....we humans can not change evolution, when we think we can is when things go horribly wrong...evolution will happen no matter how hard we fight it.....
My human nature will make me grasp something tightly and firmly and not want anything bad to ever happen to it...but the flip side of us domesticated humans is the wild...the purest form of life...the simplest, the most magnificent, the most beautiful, untainted form of life. This is when I remember to loosen the grip and step back and observe and offer aid in the smallest way possible as not to disrupt it, to not humanize it...but rather let it be.
I kinda equate this thinking with that of a butterfly, if a butterfly never has to struggle to achieve the first flaps of the wings they then never learn to fly.....this has been studied in great depth.
I do believe that the old phrase "survival of the fittest" applies for a variety of reasons..... there is a lot that happens when a species strives to survive...survival equals life and life equals living...living in turn allows a species to thrive....we humans can not change evolution, when we think we can is when things go horribly wrong...evolution will happen no matter how hard we fight it.....
My human nature will make me grasp something tightly and firmly and not want anything bad to ever happen to it...but the flip side of us domesticated humans is the wild...the purest form of life...the simplest, the most magnificent, the most beautiful, untainted form of life. This is when I remember to loosen the grip and step back and observe and offer aid in the smallest way possible as not to disrupt it, to not humanize it...but rather let it be.