|Question 14Verbal

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Studying animals in a laboratory allows variables to be systematically controlled, but removing animals from their wild habitats can affect their behavior and biology in unforeseen ways. Given this, biologists Rebecca M. Calisi-Rodríguez and George E. Bentley examined research on brown-throated three-toed sloths and white-throated sparrows to see whether results from studies in the wild were consistent with the results of studies in the laboratory. Therefore, data showing that brown-throated three-toed sloths tend to sleep fewer than 10 hours per day in the wild would be irrelevant to Calisi-Rodríguez and Bentley's investigation if ________
Which choice most logically completes the text?
they tend to sleep more than 15 hours per day in the lab.
A
white-throated sparrows have low levels of corticosterone hormones outside of the breeding season in the wild.
B
this behavior pattern has not been studied in the lab.
C
such data have been collected for white-throated sparrows in laboratory settings but not in the wild.
D