Further- more, the daily movements of sloth (20) bears and American black bears— which are similar in size to sloth bears and have similar-sized home ranges— reveal similar travel rates and distances, suggesting that if black bear cubs are (25) able to keep up with their mother, so too should sloth bear cubs.
Q 11. Which of the following, if true, would most weaken the author’s argument in lines 18-26 (“Furthermore … sloth bear cubs”)? - Cub-carrying behavior has been observed in many non-myrmecophagous mammals.
- Many of the largest myrmecophagous mammals do not typically exhibit cub-carrying behavior.
- Some sloth bears have home ranges that are smaller in size than the average home ranges of black bears.
- The locomotion of black bears is significantly more efficient than the locomotion of sloth bears.
- The habitat of black bears consists of terrain that is significantly more varied than that of the habitat of sloth bears.
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