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BRIEFLY SUMMARIZE THE WOMAN’S PROBLEM. THEN STATE WHICH 
SOLUTION YOU WOULD RECOMMEND. EXPLAIN THE REASONS FOR 
YOUR RECOMMENDATION. 
 
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Question 6. Listen to part of a lecture. Then respond to the question.
(Professor) 
I Okay, so last time we were talking about some disadvantages that 
animals that live in groups experience, namely in increased exposure to 
contagious diseases and increased competition for limited food 
resources. But now I want to switch gears and look at how living in a 
group can be advantageous. There are uh…several ways a species can 
benefit from living in a group such as increased protection from 
predators, but I want to specifically focus on how group living can 
facilitate in hunting and foraging for food in some species. 
When animals live in groups, they generally tend to hunt together, which 
makes them better able to acquire a wider variety of food, which 
increases the overall nutrition of their diet. For example wolves--so of 
course you know that they are carnivores generally hunting big game like 
deer, elk, and moose--but they can actually eat a variety of food including 
smaller mammals, insects, and some vegetation such as berries. If 
wolves hunted alone, it would be incredibly difficult for a lone wolf, all by 
itself, to take down a large mammal like an elk or moose. As a result their 
diet would be limited to the smaller animals and plants, which only would 
supply a very small amount of calories, just barely enough calories to 
survive on. But since wolves are social and live in highly organized 
groups, they are able to hunt large mammals like elk and moose, which 
provide more than enough calories for the entire group.
Another way in which living in groups is beneficial is that it aids in 
foraging, or searching for food. Some animals search for and gather food 
in organized groups such as ants. For ants, their social behavior provides 
them with the advantage of saving time and energy when they search for 
food in groups. Ants have specialized duties, um, specific ants are solely 
responsible for finding food, so they are more efficient than nonsocial 
insects in acquiring food. So when extra food is needed, some ants are 

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assigned to collect food. First patrollers or scouts go out early in the 
morning to search for food. When the scouts find food they will return to 
the ant’s nest and tell the other ants, harvester ants about what direction 
to go to find the food and when it is safe to leave the nest. When a group 
of harvester ants finds the food, they cut up the food and take the food 
back to the nest. In this process, different ants will assume different roles 
when dealing with the food, some ants will cut up the food and others will 
dig underneath large pieces of food to make it easier to transport back to 
the nest.
Now answer the following question. You have 20 seconds to prepare an answer 
and 60 seconds to give your spoken response.