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A. Animals pretend to be dead to prevent attack by predators. For example, an American opossum first hisses and then releases a foul-smelling substance to deter its predators. If this doesn’t work, it falls over, lets it tongue hang out, stiffens its limbs and breathes so slowly as to appear dead.
