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Re: Few animals brave the midday heat of the Sahara desert [#permalink]
We need to find an answer option which least explains the silver ant's choice of scavenging times(in the afternoon when it is extremely hot)

(A) The chief predators of the silver ant must take cover from the sun during midday.
If their chief predators take cover, the ants would have one less problem to take care of.
(B) The cues that silver ants use to navigate become less reliable as the afternoon progresses.
If the navigability becomes weaker as the day progresses,
it makes sense to venture out in the open, when their navigation is at the best

(C) Other scavengers remove any remaining corpses as soon as the temperature begins to drop in the afternoon.
It means less competition for the corpses, so is an added advantage to go out in the afternoon
(D) The temperature inside the silver ants’ nests often exceeds the surface temperature during the hottest times of the day.
They must be used to the heat out in the open, as their nests are very hot
(E) Silver ants cool themselves by climbing onto small pieces of dried vegetation to take advantage of random light breezes.
There is no clear link of the ants getting random light breezes and the choice of time to go scavenging.
This is our correct answer.
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Re: Few animals brave the midday heat of the Sahara desert [#permalink]
+1 E

No link to specific time to gather food.They could cool themselves any time of the day,if true.
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