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Most animals don't brave the midday heat of the Sahara,
The silver ant leaves its nest at midday and scouts for food, typically animals that died from the heat.
We basically need four answers that give some reason why it's advantageous for the silver ant to scavenge for dead bodies in the scorching midday heat.
Which one of the following, if true, LEAST helps to explain the silver ant's choice of scavenging times?
The chief predators of the
The silver ant chooses to scout for food during the midday heat because it's safer! Their predators aren't out and about.
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The cues that silver ants
The silver ant chooses to scout for food during the midday heat because it's easier! The midday sun helps them navigate. They're more likely to get lost if they wait until the cooler afternoon hours.
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Other scavengers remove any remaining
The silver ant chooses to scout for food during the midday heat because it's when the food is still available. If they wait until later, then other scavengers will have beat them to the delicious corpses.
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The temperature inside the silver
The silver ant chooses to scout for food during the midday heat because it's cooler than where they live! Their nest is even hotter, so might as well go scout for food.
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Silver ants cool themselves by
Why this is right
This tells us how the silver ant cools itself off, but it has nothing to do with midday. They could cool themselves off this way at any point of day, so this doesn't offer any reason why they would choose to go out at the hottest point of the day. We might be thinking that this shows how they could cope with the blazing heat, but "random light breezes" doesn't sound like something that happens very frequently, so this doesn't sound like a very viable way of staying cool in blazing heat that dissuades most other animals.
Skill tested: Paradox · how this choice captures the argument's function is the move to repeat next time.
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