Multiple choice

Directions: The last sentence in the following passage has been deleted. Select the sentence, out of the available options, that best suits the end of the passage

Elephants have joined a small, elite group of species, including humans, great apes and dolphins that have the ability to recognize themselves in the mirror, according to a new finding by researchers at the Yerkes National Primate Research Center, Emory University, and the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) in New York. This newly found presence of mirror self-recognition in elephants, previously predicted due to their well-known social complexity, is thought to relate to empathetic tendencies and the ability to distinguish oneself from others, a characteristic that evolved independently in several branches of animals, including primates such as humans.

  1. The homo sapiens lose yet another of their perceived superior virtues to the animal kingdom.

  2. A whole series of revelations, like this, will serve to further reduce the perceived differences between the humans and the rest of the animal kingdom.

  3. This only serves to support the point that it is not the animals that suffer from the lack of certain “human” characteristics; it is the humans who lack appreciation of some such characteristics within the animals.

  4. The study is the latest in a series of revelations about the cognitive skills of living beings, other than humans.
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D Correct answer
Explanation

Option (4) seems to sum up the theme of the passage and elaborate the idea towards the end of the paragraph.

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