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#24495
Complete Question Explanation
Resolve the Paradox. The correct answer choice is (D)
This short stimulus presents an interesting fact about Vervet monkeys: they use different warnings depending on the whether a predator comes from the land or the air.
The question asks for an explanation of this behavior, so the correct answer choice will likely present an reason for the need to distinguish between these two types of predators.
Answer choice (A): This choice provides a further distinction that can be drawn from this monkey’s call, but this does not explain the existence of two different warning call, so this answer choice is incorrect.
Answer choice (B): This choice does not offer a reason for two different predator calls, so it is incorrect.
Answer choice (C): This answer choice does not resolve the paradox—it expands it. This choice rules out one possible explanation for the different calls: if there were a main predator that might strike from land or air, this would explain the different calls. Since this answer choice provides that there is not such a predator, the paradox remains unresolved.
Answer choice (D): This is the correct answer choice. This choice provides a reason that this species would benefit from two different warning calls: if the monkeys have different completely different strategies for dealing with different types of predators, this explains why they have developed two different predator warning calls.
Answer choice (E): This choice reinforces the fact that there are both land and air predators of the Vervet monkey, but we already knew that based on the fact that the monkey has two different warning calls. Since this choice does not explain the existence of those two different calls, does not answer the question and cannot be correct.
Resolve the Paradox. The correct answer choice is (D)
This short stimulus presents an interesting fact about Vervet monkeys: they use different warnings depending on the whether a predator comes from the land or the air.
The question asks for an explanation of this behavior, so the correct answer choice will likely present an reason for the need to distinguish between these two types of predators.
Answer choice (A): This choice provides a further distinction that can be drawn from this monkey’s call, but this does not explain the existence of two different warning call, so this answer choice is incorrect.
Answer choice (B): This choice does not offer a reason for two different predator calls, so it is incorrect.
Answer choice (C): This answer choice does not resolve the paradox—it expands it. This choice rules out one possible explanation for the different calls: if there were a main predator that might strike from land or air, this would explain the different calls. Since this answer choice provides that there is not such a predator, the paradox remains unresolved.
Answer choice (D): This is the correct answer choice. This choice provides a reason that this species would benefit from two different warning calls: if the monkeys have different completely different strategies for dealing with different types of predators, this explains why they have developed two different predator warning calls.
Answer choice (E): This choice reinforces the fact that there are both land and air predators of the Vervet monkey, but we already knew that based on the fact that the monkey has two different warning calls. Since this choice does not explain the existence of those two different calls, does not answer the question and cannot be correct.