5. Atrens: An early entomologist observed ants carrying particles to neighboring ant colonies and inferred that the ants were bringing food to their neighbors. Further research, however, revealed that the ants were emptying their own colony’s dumping site. Thus, the early entomologist was wrong. Atrens’s conclusion follows logically if which one of the following is assumed?

Вариант ответа 1 - (A) Ant societies do not interact in all the same ways that human societies interact.

Вариант ответа 2 - (B) There is only weak evidence for the view that ants have the capacity to make use of objects as gifts.

Вариант ответа 3 - (C) Ant dumping sites do not contain particles that could be used as food.

Вариант ответа 4 - (D) The ants to whom the particles were brought never carried the particles into their own colonies.

Вариант ответа 5 - (E) The entomologist cited retracted his conclusion when it was determined that the particles the ants carried came from their dumping site.