LSAT 104 | Section 3 | Reading Comprehension: Q21

RC Question 21 Explanation

DISCUSSION: Papi thinks the pigeons find their way home using a “map sense” (lines 36-37).

The author thinks that homing pigeon’s probably do use a map sense (lines 34-36), even if we don’t know how the map sense works.

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1. This is Papi’s theory. In the fourth paragraph, the author attacks this idea.
2. Honeybees track their displacement. They don’t use a map sense (lines 9-11).
3. CORRECT. See lines 34-37, and discussion above.
4. Lines 51-58 show that the author thinks Papi’s experiments were poorly conducted.
5. In line 46, when the author says those experiments showed a problem with “the hypothesis”, the author is referring to Papi’s hypothesis.