▶ Your Answer : In the reading passage, there is ample support for the author's claim that deers have antlers that have functions to work to their advantages. However, the professor in the lecture gives several reasons as a rebuttal to the author's point. First, the professor contends that Antlers is not major role in interacting with their partners. There are many other type of method to attract counterparts such as voice and posture. Moreover, It seems that having a large antler make it difficult to succeed in mating, which means size of antlers is not the issue of their sexual appeals. This counter the reading passage's claim that the pivotal role in antler is mating and with this, deers determine the winner and the winner will get mates. Next, the professor insists that it is wrong to say that marking on the tree is considered as a territory warnings. she says that the secretions with strong scent could be an warning of territory to other male instead. This casts doubt on the reading passage's assertion that rubbing against trees is a marking that show the surrounding area is under the deer's influences. Finally, the professor argues that there is vague relationship between the antler and deer's defense mechanism. In winter, deers shed their antlers although there is liable to be attacked by predators. Also, female deers have no antlers but they should protect their offsprings from the threat of wolves. This refutes the reading passage's suggestion that it is essential for deers to have antlers to defend their own because the antler will be used as weapons to be brandished. |