even snails organize to gain freedom.

Farmed snails unhappy with their lot in life have found ways to break free.

In the mid-nineteenth century, Sir George Head described the single-minded survival instinct of snails for sale at a street market in Rome: "The proprietor," Sir George commented,

"is obliged to exert his utmost vigilance and dexterity in order to restrain their incessant efforts to crawl over the edge of the basket and escape."

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