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broken wing display in various bird species
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which choice best describes data from the table that weaken the students claim?
a neither the painted quail, thrush, nor the south american snipe is known to perform broken - wing display.
b both the mourning dove and the pine warbler are known to perform broken - wing display.
c unlike the common sandpiper, the south american snipe is not known to perform broken - wing display, even though both are in the order charadriiformes.
d the common sandpiper. in the order charadriiformes, is known to perform broken - wing display, and the painted quail, thrush in the order passeriformes. is not.

Explanation:

The students' claim is that adult birds (like the South - American snipe) learning of other birds that also exhibit "lappy" (broken - wing display to lure predators away from the nesting site).

• Option A: The painted quail, thrush, and South - American snipe are in different orders. The fact that they are in different orders doesn't directly relate to whether they perform the broken - wing display. Just because they are in different taxonomic groups (orders) doesn't weaken the claim that different birds can learn the behavior.
• Option B: The mourning dove and the pine warbler are known to perform broken - wing display. This actually supports the idea that multiple bird species (even if they are in the same order - Columbiformes for mourning dove and Passeriformes for pine warbler) can exhibit the behavior, so it doesn't weaken the claim.
• Option C: The common sandpiper (Charadriiformes) and the South - American snipe (Charadriiformes) are in the same order. But the claim is about learning across different birds (not just within the same order). However, the key is that the South - American snipe is known to perform the display, and the common sandpiper (in the same order) is also known. But the more important part is the order Passeriformes.
• Option D: The order Passeriformes (where thrush and painted quail are) is not known to perform broken - wing display. Since the students' claim is about birds learning the behavior (implying a more widespread occurrence), if a whole order (Passeriformes which has multiple species like thrush and painted quail) is not known to perform the display, it weakens the idea that it is a common enough behavior for birds to learn from other species.

Answer:

D