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Zooarchaeologist Ophélie Lebrasseur and her team examined a fox skeleton discovered in 1991 at an archaeological site alongside artifacts of human habitation (like spear points) in central Argentina. Lebrasseur et al. determined that the fox was Dusicyon avus, an extinct species resembling a jackal, and radiocarbon dating placed the fox at the site at the same time as human inhabitants. (Indeed, the inhabitants may have deliberately buried the fox.) In addition, while wild foxes have a diet entirely made of meat, isotopic signatures of the skeleton's teeth indicated that the fox's diet, like that of the humans, was partly composed of plant material. Lebrasseur et al. therefore concluded that       
Which choice most logically completes the text?
the humans who were alive at the same time as the fox most likely ate more meat than the fox did.
A
the fox had a diet more similar to that of jackals than to that of wild foxes.
B
the humans who were alive at the same time as the fox hunted using the spears whose points were also found at the site.
C
the fox may have been a companion animal of the humans who inhabited the site at the same time.
D