Question

read the passage. there are several questions about this passage. from settled in the wild 1 it is a rainy morning, the first week of may, good weather to plant nasturtiums. i sit on the porch steps with rubber boots on, a baseball cap, and a slicker, holding the packages of seeds i bought at the feed store in town yesterday. the rain is steady and cold, the light is steel gray, and the yard is patchy and wet. but the pictures on the packages vibrate with color. nothing looks as good as these nasturtium flowers right now: deep red, eye - jolting orange, electric yellow. 2 absentmindedly, i begin to recite william wordsworths \i wandered lonely as a cloud\ to myself. i have known the poem by heart ever since my father taught it to me when i was a child: for oft, when on my couch i lie in vacant or in pensive mood, they flash upon the inward eye which is the bliss of solitude; and then my heart with pleasure fills and dances with the which idea about hummingbirds is least explained in the passage? 1. what the birds do to \survive cool maine nights\ (paragraph 7) 2. what creates colors of \iridescent reds and greens\ in the mature bird (paragraph 10) 3. why only a \few fossilized bones\ of the birds have been found (paragraph 11) 4. why some bird \species were lost\ before being named (paragraph 12) 4 hummers do exactly what physiologists once insisted they could not do. a bird that weighs so little, they argued, cannot go from the yucatán to the

Explanation:

En el texto, sobre los hummingbirds, se habla más sobre su viaje, apariencia y sobrevivencia en ciertos climas, pero la razón por la cual solo se han encontrado "unos pocos huesos fosilizados" se menciona sin explicar en detalle.

Answer:

1. why only a "few fossilized bones" of the birds have been found (Paragraph 11)