This is a question about the sections in a rattlesnake's tale.
The answer to this is (E): Rattlesnakes molt as often when food is scarce as when they do when food is plentiful.
Can someone explain this answer to me please? I don't see how this has to do with anything in the stimulus at all.
PT 30, section 2, #22 Forum
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clee33
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Re: PT 30, section 2, #22
If they molt at different rates depending on outside circumstances, then the molting might not be at a constant rate, and thus not a reliable determinant of age.
Say you have a rattlesnake that lives in the desert. It molts three times a year there. Then you take it to a bunny farm and let it go crazy. It gets so fat that it has to molt nine times a year there. So it has molted 12 times in 2 years. Based on the desert rate, it should be 4 years old, but based on the farm rate, it's only a little over a year old. In reality it's neither of these ages.
Say you have a rattlesnake that lives in the desert. It molts three times a year there. Then you take it to a bunny farm and let it go crazy. It gets so fat that it has to molt nine times a year there. So it has molted 12 times in 2 years. Based on the desert rate, it should be 4 years old, but based on the farm rate, it's only a little over a year old. In reality it's neither of these ages.
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Maye
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Re: PT 30, section 2, #22
Thanks. It does make sense, I guess. I was thinking about the constant rate of molting, too, but I was thrown off by the first answer choice about the snakes molting once a year.
