Health in the Wild Reading Answers

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Table of Contents:

• Solution for Health in the Wild
• Health in the Wild IELTS Reading Practice Test - Exam Review
• Passage
• Questions
• Answers with Explanations

Solution for Health in the Wild 

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Answer Table

1. Yes	4. Yes
2. Not Given	5. No
3. No	6. No

Health in the Wild IELTS Reading Practice Test - Exam Review

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Passage 

Below we have given the passage for Health in the wild. Read the passage thoroughly and answer the following questions. We have also given Health in the Wild Reading Answers with location. 

Answer the questions 1-6 based on the below passage.

Health in the wild

Dr Engel, a lecturer at Britain’s Open University handling environmental science subjects stating examples of self-medication behaviour in wild animals for the past 10 years. A book was published by her related to that subject. At the Edinburgh Science Festival she said that the behaviour of animals treating themselves is known when her colleague discussed it without a doubt. But the huge number of animal behaviourists think that wild animals can handle their own medical needs.

In 1987, an example of animal self-medication was founded. In the Mahale Mountains National Park in Tanzania two people Michael Huffman and Mohamedi Seifu were working. In that case, they found that chimpanzees which are affected by intestinal worms medicate themselves with a plant called Veronia. The poisonous chemicals like terpenes are secreted by that plant. The pith it secretes is a strong concentrated substance which will kill parasites but not strong enough to kill chimpanzees or humans either. But this plant is named as a goat-killer, it shows that all animals are not smart like chimps and also as humans. Some consume it unsystematically or to stop fighting from something.

As the chimpanzees eating the veronia plant was found by someone, more evidence was shown by explaining that animals don't eat such leaves for nutritional reasons than medicinal reasons. Most species have a behaviour of eating dirt, known as geophagy. Historically it was mentioned that soil supplies minerals such as salt. But that geophagy appears only where there is no valuable source of minerals. And also from places where those minerals that are rich-source can easily be found in some plants. This clearly shows that animals are getting great sources by consuming earth.

Many currently believe that the soil and the clay which is in it helps in detoxifying the defensive poisons which some plants produce to protect themselves from getting eaten. This detoxification of clay was discovered in the experiment on macaws by James Gilardi and his colleagues at the University of California, Davis. Macaws generally eat seed which contains alkaloids and has a group of chemicals which includes toxic one such as strychnine. In the wild birds perching on eroding river banks eating clay are seen frequently. Dr. Gilardi separated macaws in two groups, one given with a mixture of harmless alkaloid and clay and another with just alkaloid. Hours later, the clay eaten macaws had 60% less alkaloid in the bloodstreams than others, which suggests that the hypothesis is correct.

Questions 1- 6

Do the following statements agree with the information given in the Reading Passage?

Write
YES, if the statement agrees with the claims of the writer
NO, if the statement contradicts the claims of the writer
NOT GIVEN, if it is impossible to say what the writer thinks about this

1. Dr Engel experimenting self-medication for past decade
2. Animals walk longer distance to find the plants for medication
3. Birds like macaw eat clay as part of their natural diet
4. Animal self-medication is discovered in Tanzania
5. The pith of the plants kill chimpanzees
6. Birds eat alkaloid and clay

Answers for Health in the Wild With Explanations

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(Note: The text in italics mentions the location and referring lines written in the reading passage.)

1. Answer: Yes 
Explanation: Dr Engel, a lecturer at Britain’s Open University handling environmental science subjects stating examples of self-medication behaviour in wild animals for the past 10 years - This statement clearly shows that self-medication experiments have been done for decades.

2. Answer: Not Given
Explanation: Animals eat plants for medication is given in the passage but there is no such statement mentioned as they walk for a long distance to eat the plants.

3. Answer: No
Explanation: In the wild birds perching on eroding river banks eating clay is seen frequently - This statement shows that birds eat clay but it doesn’t mention like they eat it for natural diet.

4. Answer: Yes
Explanation: In 1987, an example of animal self-medication was founded. In the Mahale Mountains National Park in Tanzania two people Michael Huffman and Mohamedi Seifu were working - This line of the second paragraph gives that animal self-medication was founded in Tanzania.

5. Answer: No
Explanation: The pith it secretes is a strong concentrated substance which will kill parasites but not strong enough to kill chimpanzees or humans either - The statement mentions that the pith kills parasites not chimpanzees.

6. Answer: No
Explanation: In the wild birds perching on eroding river banks eating clay are seen frequently - This statement shows that birds eat clay not alkaloid.

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