Wolves generally avoid human settlements. For this reason,

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Wolves generally avoid human settlements. For this reason, domestic sheep, though essentially easy prey for wolves, are not usually attacked by them. In Hylantia prior to 1910, farmers nevertheless lost considerable numbers of sheep to wolves each year. Attributing this to the large number for wolves, in 1910 the government began offering rewards to hunters for killing wolves. From 1910 to 1915, large numbers of wolves were killed. Yet wolf attacks on sheep increased significantly.

Which of the following, if true, most helps to explain the increase in wolf attacks on sheep?

(A) Populations of deer and other wild animals that wolves typically prey on increased significantly in numbers from 1910 to 1915.

(B) Prior to 1910, there were no legal restrictions in Hylantia on the hunting of wolves.

(C) After 1910 hunters shot and wounded a substantial number of wolves, thereby greatly diminishing these wolves' ability to prey on wild animals.

(D) Domestic sheep are significantly less able than most wild animals to defend themselves against wolf attacks.

(E) The systematic hunting of wolves encouraged by the program drove many wolves in Hylantia to migrate to remote mountain areas uninhabited by humans.

OA C

Source: GMAT Prep

[deloitte247]

The argument will be true if falsely developed if after following options we are able to come up with a logic response.

Option A - INCORRECT
This is very true because wolves have been largely exterminated by the hunters who got rewarded for killing the wolves. As a result, deer and other wild animals who until then were been killed by wolves began to increase in numbers.

Option B - INCORRECT
There were no legal restrictions because sheep been farmed by the locals were not been killed because they lived among human population which the wolves don't attack

Option C - CORRECT
Very correct assertions that hunters were mobilised to kill wolves as a result of the dangers the wolves posed to the animal ecosystem and animal population.

Option D - INCORRECT
Yes, very true, which was actually the reason the sheep lives with the human population which makes it difficult for the dangerous wild wolves to invade and kill them.

Option E - INCORRECT
Since wolves had sensed the dangers in their geographical interactions with human they then decide to go on the mountains in order to shield themselves of further deaths that could send them to extinction.