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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. ███

Intro topic · Okapi raises lots of questions

Question 1 · How to classify Okapi?

Size and stripes are like horse family.

Answer · Belongs to giraffe family

Belongs to giraffe because of skin-covered horns, two-lobed canine, and long tongue.

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Question 2 · Size of Okapi population?

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Answer · Not as rare as previously thought, but concentrated in limited area

They live only in a chain of forestland surrounded by savanna in northeastern central Africa.

Reasons for apparent rarity · Good camouflage, don't travel in groups or in open areas

They stay inside the forest.

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Reason for staying inside forest · Eat only leaves

They never eat one plant much more than others. So they walk around the forest eating various leaves, and don't congregate in groups in the forest.

Question 3 · Why remain only in forest when they eat plants that are found between forest and savanna?

Possible Answers · Defense against predators or outcompeted by other animals in other areas

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Question 4 · Why aren't they in other nearby forests?

Possible answer · Live in area that used to be the only forest

Zoologists think Okapis respect the boundaries of what used to be the only forest, even after forest expanded.

Passage Style

Phenomenon-hypothesis (RC)

Single position

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Question Type

Analogy (RC)

The author describes okapi eating behavior in P3: ”Okapis never eat one plant to the exclusion of others; even where preferred foliage is abundant, okapis will leave much of it uneaten, choosing to move on and sample other leaves.” Let’s look for an answer involving leaving some things uneaten, or sampling various foods. If the LSAT wants a more abstract analogy, then the correct answer doesn’t have to involve eating. It might involve someone leaving something unfinished before moving on to another thing.

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The okapi doesn’t eat “all” of one leaf before moving to another.

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It’s not clear how following an outline is analogous to leaving foods uneaten or leaving something unfinished before moving on to something else.

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It’s not clear how delaying work until the last minute is analogous to leaving foods uneaten or leaving something unfinished before moving on to something else.

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This is the most analogous, because the reader doesn’t read every story to completion. She leaves a story unfinished and moves on to the next, just as the okapi samples one leaf before moving on to the next.

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It’s not clear how hiding during the day and leaving at other times is analogous to leaving foods uneaten before moving on to something else.

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