In above question, while using block of 4 strategy; Greg said: as question is asking for animals less intelligent than mammals and question is about inference hence we look for opposite(animals more intelligent) in the passage.
My question is, how are you so sure that large mammal predator is “more intelligent animals than the mammals”?
While solving, I considered “closer to human(mammals) consciousness”(Line 30) as more appropriate opposite of "animals less intelligent than mammal". And I was using there properties to solve the question.
May you please help explaining why I was wrong and How Greg concluded above?
@gregmat
Because of all of that evidence that comes after when they first mention large mammal predator. It basically says they’re smart:
“working out a relationship”
“sensitive to possibilities”
“sensitive to yesterday’s unforgotten lessons.”
But @gregmat is not "closer to human(mammals) consciousness”(Line 30) is more explicit one?
These 3 points seems more implicit… No?
Why are we considering above implicit points closer to “animals more intelligent” than explicit one?
How are we ruling out Line 30?
We’re not. ETS passages tend to provide multiple instances of evidence
I feel like the answer corresponding to learning from past events is the better answer because the passage directly links the intelligence of the predator (given by the evidence listed above) to an activity the predator is doing and thus we can infer that this means a less intelligent animal won’t be able to the same thing. When the passage mentions the lizards, it simply says that the act is instinctive, but this doesn’t mean we can infer that the lizard does not have the same muscular coordination, it means that we can infer the impulses to use that coordination aren’t as refined. I don’t think it’s enough to just say that “ETS gives multiple pieces of evidence” because they give multiple pieces of evidence for both things and that doesn’t clear anything up. I think it more has to do with what we can actually infer from that evidence.
