Define aestivation. | Class 12 Biology Chapter Organisms and Population, Organisms and Population NCERT Solutions

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Define aestivation.

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Aestivation is also known as the summer sleep and is prolonged torpor or dormancy of an insect, fish and other some animals during hot dry period; or we can say that is a state of dormancy characterized by inactivation and low metabolic rate in response to high temperature and dry conditions. For example: Ground squirrels of the South- western deserts undergoes summer sleep and lie dormant inside the burrows during hot dry periods.

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