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Summary Quiz for “The Brains of the Animal Kingdom”

Question 14.6

1. Read “The Brains of the Animal Kingdom” and summarize the selection below. Be sure to put the summary in your own words and to avoid using the sentence structure of the reading selection. Remember that your summary should restate the author’s main idea (or thesis) and that it should include only the author’s most important supporting ideas. When you have completed your summary, “submit” your work.

Here is an example summary of this reading selection:

In “The Brains of the Animal Kingdom,” Franz de Waal explains how scientists are revising the way they understand and test animal intelligence. Animals had been considered incapable of higher-order thinking, but this view is largely based on faulty studies that were not designed from an animal’s perspective. As the quality of research has improved, so has our understanding of animals as capable decision makers.

Your summary will differ from this one in the way it is written, but it should include roughly the same information.