The okapi, a forest mammal of central Africa, has presented zoologists with a number of difficult questions since they first learned of its existence in 1900. ███
The author tells us what zoologists think about the locations in which okapis live in the last paragraph: ”Zoologists theorize that okapis are relicts of an era when forestland was scarce and that they continue to respect those borders even though available forestland has long since expanded.” This means zoologists think that okapis continue to live in the areas they used to live in when forests were scarce. So they’d conclude that the recently discovered area in which okapis are found to live is a place where okapis used to live when forests were scarce.
Not supported. We have no reason to think zoologists believe competition with other mammals “in neighboring forests” pushed the okapis to their location. Although the author speculates that okapis might have been pushed into forest areas based on competition with animals that feed at “forest edges,” those other animals do not necessarily live “in forests,” nor do we know that zoologists agree with this speculation. Notice that the author does not attribute the claim about competition to other zoologists.
b
Okapis in this ██████ ██████ ██████ ██ ███ ██████ ███████ ██████ ███ ████████
Anti-supported. Okapis prefer to remain within forests, even though many foods they eat are also found between forests and savannas.
c
Okapis in this ██████ ██████ ███ ███ ██████████ ██ ███ █████ █████████ ██ ███████
Not supported. We have no reason to think zoologists would believe okapis are not threatened by the predators of other okapis.
d
Okapis moved into ████ ██████ ██████ ███████ █████ █████████ ███████ ██ ████ ████████ █████ ████ ██ █████ ████████
Not supported. We have no reason to think zoologists believe the okapis moved based on the abundance of food.
This is what zoologists are likely to conclude for the reasons explained above.
Difficulty
67% of people who answer get this correct
This is a difficult question.
It is significantly harder than the average question in this passage.
CURVE
Score of students with a 50% chance of getting this right
25%140
155
75%171
Analysis
Implied
Other’s perspective
Phenomenon-hypothesis
Science
Single position
Answer Popularity
PopularityAvg. score
a
25%
163
b
2%
161
c
4%
162
d
1%
154
e
67%
168
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