Multiple choice

Chinese Giant Pandas are rapidly disappearing from their natural habitats. Therefore, to preserve this unique species, pandas must be captured and placed in zoos.

Which of the following, if true, would most seriously weaken the conclusion drawn above?

  1. Captured pandas typically reproduce with greater frequency than they did in their natural habitat.

  2. Newborn pandas in captivity are more likely to survive the diseases that often strike and kill newborn pandas in the wild.

  3. Pandas eat only particular food that cannot be provided in the proper quanty outside of the panda's natural habitat.

  4. There are not enough pandas to provide a breeding pair to each zoo that wants one.

  5. None of these

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C Correct answer
Explanation

If pandas cannot be provided with the food they need in captivity, then keeping them in captivity would not help to preserve them.