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Wildcats are improbable candidates for domestication. Like all felids [cats]
Wildcats are improbable candidates for domestication. Like all felids [cats]
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2024-01-10
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Wildcats are improbable candidates for domestication. Like all felids [cats], wildcats are obligate carnivores, meaning they have a limited metabolic ability to digest anything except proteins. Wildcats live a solitary existence and defend exclusive territories, making them more attached to places than to people. Furthermore, cats do not perform directed tasks and their actual utility is debatable; even as mousers, in this latter role, terrier dogs and ferrets are preferable.
Accordingly, there is little reason to believe an early agricultural community would have sought out and selected the wildcat as a house pet.
Rather, the best inference is that wildcats exploiting human environments were simply tolerated by people and, over time and space, they gradually diverged from their “wild" relatives. [br] The author would most likely agree that in early agricultural communities cats would have been
选项
A、more tolerant than ferrets of contact with humans
B、as incapable of performing directed tasks as ferrets
C、less likely to be solitary than ferrets
D、less useful than terrier dogs at controlling rodents
E、more easily domesticated than terrier dogs
答案
D
解析
对应第四句后半部分,这里的rodents=老鼠。A项文中没做这样的比较。B项文中把猫和雪貂进行比较的只有抓老鼠这方面,没有提及完成指定任务。C项文中没做这样的比较。D项文中把猫和梗类犬进行比较的只有抓老鼠这方面,没有提及被驯养。
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