QUESTION TEXT: Millions of female bats rear their pups…
QUESTION TYPE: Main Point
CONCLUSION: Mother bats can recognize the cry of their pups.
REASONING: Mother bats leave their pups in a cave with other pups. They always find them, even though hearing their pups cry is the only way to tell the pups apart. The pups can’t recognize their mothers.
ANALYSIS: The argument tries to shows that mothers recognize their babies’ cries because there are no other explanations for how they find them.
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- There aren’t any specific bats mentioned. The argument’s evidence is only about bats in general.
- CORRECT. The argument eliminates the possibility that the mothers can find the pups by some other method and it eliminates the possibility that pups can recognize the mothers’ calls.
- The argument hasn’t explained the mechanism by which the bats can recognize calls.
- The mothers and the pups don’t share the ability to identify cries. The pups can’t recognize their mothers.
- The argument only talked about bats in general. An example of this answer choice would be: if the argument had talked about a particular bat, and applied a general rule to their situation.
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