Identifying Logical Benefits of Robotics in Animal Studies
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Select the sentence that provides logical information to explain why using robots can be safer for the animals being studied.
4 With robots, researchers can tease apart factors, such as a fish's size and its experience, that are inextricably linked in real animals. They can expose animals to exactly the same stimulus over and over, speeding up the experimental process. And sometimes, they can do all this without exposing animals to risk from real predators or potential invasive species.
5 Here are . . . animal-like, or biomimetic, robots that researchers are already using to study—and, in one case, to control—the social life of real-life animals.
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Hello! Today we are looking at a reading comprehension task. The goal is to identify a sentence that explains why using robots is safer for the animals being studied.
Identifying Logical Support
Goal: Find logical info on why robots are safer for animals.
Let's look closely at paragraph four. It lists several advantages of using robots in research.
Paragraph 4
With robots, researchers can tease apart factors... such as a fish's size and its experience... They can expose animals to exactly the same stimulus over and over... And sometimes, they can do all this without exposing animals to risk from real predators or potentially invasive species.
The paragraph mentions two main scientific benefits first: isolating variables and being able to repeat experiments with precision.
However, the question specifically asks about the safety of the animals being studied. Now, look at the final sentence.
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