PrepTest 110, Section 4, Question 4
The okapi, a forest mammal of central Africa,(465 more words not shown)
Suppose that numerous okapis are(38 more words not shown)
- AOkapis were pushed(11 more words not shown)
- BOkapis in this(10 more words not shown)
- COkapis in this(11 more words not shown)
- DOkapis moved into(15 more words not shown)
- EOkapis lived in(10 more words not shown)
Reading the passage
We have a newly discovered population, but no new facts about how these animals behave. We need to apply the zoologists' existing views, not invent a special reason this group moved here. Keep the questions separate: why stay inside a forest, and why occupy this particular forest rather than another?
Working the answers
- A
The competition theory concerns grazers at the forest edges pushing okapis toward the interior. This answer instead proposes competition in neighboring forests causing movement between forests. That isn't the situation described.
- B
The stated behavior is to avoid the open border. We have no evidence that this newly found population does the opposite.
- C
Unexplored by zoologists doesn't mean free of predators. We learn nothing that would support this protection for the newly found group.
- D
We aren't told they moved there, or that their preferred foliage is more abundant there. We also already have a puzzle about apparently suitable forests remaining unoccupied. Food-driven migration isn't established by this discovery.
- ECorrect
Zoologists think okapis are survivors from a period of limited forest and still respect those old boundaries (paragraph 4). Under that view, another occupied forest would be an area they inhabited during that earlier period. This applies the stated historical explanation without pretending the new discovery proves it.
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