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What does the speaker cite as an introduction to the topic? [br] [originaltext]
What does the speaker cite as an introduction to the topic? [br] [originaltext]
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2023-12-24
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What does the speaker cite as an introduction to the topic? [br]
In the classic story, a boy tries to repeatedly fool his town into believing that there is a wolf on the prowl. This morality tale ends poorly for the boy, but a small Australian bird can do one better. When a pied currawong goes looking for brown thornbill nestlings to eat, the thornbill parents call wolf — or, actually, they call hawk. The false alarms fool the currawong into thinking that its own predator, the brown goshawk, is nearby. The tiny thornbill thus effectively outsmarts its large enemy.
To explore how this sophisticated ruse works, biologist Branislav Igic and his colleagues positioned a taxidermied currawong near thornbill nests while broadcasting nestling distress calls. The thornbills sounded their hawk alarm calls and even mimicked the alarms of other species. Igic also tested 18 currawongs by broadcasting the sounds of the thornbills’ mimetic and nonmimetic hawk calls. He found that the playback discouraged the currawongs from hunting.
The researchers think that alarm calls from what sounds like multiple callers might make the warning seem more reliable. Birds can adapt some very interesting and unique strategies to protect their young. The thornbills’ own hawk calls fooled the currawongs for 8. 3 seconds on average, but when Igic included the mimicked calls, too, the currawongs were distracted twice as long. That padding may provide enough time for the nestlings to escape the nest.
选项
A、They felt curious.
B、They mimicked alarm calls.
C、They felt cheated.
D、They gave up hunting.
答案
D
解析
原文指出澳洲喜鹊听到播放的刺喙蜂鸟模仿的鹰的声音和真正鹰的叫声后,都会放弃捕猎行为。
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