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How do animals like fish and snails avoid summer related unfavorable conditions?

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**Step-by-Step Solution:** 1. **Understanding the Question**: The question asks how certain animals, specifically fish and snails, cope with unfavorable conditions that arise during the summer months. 2. **Identifying the Process**: The key process that these animals use to avoid summer-related unfavorable conditions is known as "estivation." 3. **Defining Estivation**: Estivation is a state of dormancy or inactivity that some animals enter during hot and dry periods. It is often referred to as "summer sleep." ...
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