Multiple choice

What is the main purpose of keeping homing pigeons according to the passage?

Directions: Read the passage and answer the question that follows.

Pigeons have an instinctive ability to navigate by the sun, the earth’s magnetic field and by infrasound or hearing distant low-frequency sound waves. However, due to adverse weather or man-created conditions, e.g. cell tower signals emitting radiation which results in disorientation and windmills which affect all birds and bats too, they increasingly find it difficult to pick up proper directions to reach “home”, but no matter what, most do eventually return safe. Homers are a breed of pigeons named so because many have flown back to their “homes” from long distances. They are made to race between 8 months to 5 years of age. Training is called “tossing” which involves, as just mentioned, taking the birds to a place and releasing them. The time they take to return home needs to be noted.

  1. They are made to navigate

  2. They are trained to race

  3. They are used for detecting cell towers that emit radiation

  4. Cannot be determined from the passage

  5. .
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B Correct answer
Explanation

This is the correct answer as the passage explains how pigeons are trained and raced from the age of 6 months to 5 years.

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