▶ Your Answer :
The
reading passage contends that there are several plausible reasons for why whales
becomes stranded on the beach. On the other hand, the lecturer brings up a few
points that contradict this argument.
First
of all, the lecturer points that the assertion that whales become stranded
because of wind patterns is just wrong. This is attributed to the fact that
these kinds of stranding happen even in areas where various patterns of wind
breeze. For example, there are whales stranded on the eastern beach of United States.
However, the orientation of wind in that area points to the ocean, not shore.
This refutes the author’s point that whale-stranding is because of wind.
Moreover,
in the lecture, the point is made that illness doesn’t make whales come ashore.
This is because there are case in which healthy whales are stranded on beach.
Also, many stranded whales are able to swim back to ocean without any help.
This casts doubt on the idea in the reading passage that whale-stranding is due
to illnesses.
The final point made by the lecturer is that
the features of shore line couldn’t be the reason of whale-stranding. It was discovered
that only some of whales get lost in certain coastlines, not every whale. In addition,
the very kind of whale which inhabits around the geologically complex coastlines
is not the one becoming stranded most. This is different from the passage’s
view that the reason whales become disoriented and stranded is the geological
feature of coastlines. |