Snails dig themselves into the ground in winter and remain torpid, cementing up the opening to their shells. They breathe through a small hole in the "cement,” too small to allow the entrance of water, but large enough to allow sufficient air for their feeble respiration.
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Manawatu Times, Volume LIV, Issue 6863, 19 March 1929, Page 9
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