2024Pairs/Matching (How Many Style)Biogeography & Regional Ecology
Consider the following pairs:
Country | Animal found in its natural habitat
1. Brazil | Indri
2. Indonesia | Elk
3. Madagascar | Bonobo
How many of the pairs given above are correctly matched?
A.Only one
B.Only two
C.All three
D.None of the above
Explanation: * Pair 1 is incorrectly matched: The Indri (the largest living lemur species) is strictly endemic to the tropical rainforests of Madagascar, not Brazil. * Pair 2 is incorrectly matched: The Elk is a large terrestrial mammal within the deer family native to North America and Central/East Asia, not Indonesia. * Pair 3 is incorrectly matched: The Bonobo (pygmy chimpanzee) is an endangered great ape native exclusively to the Congo Basin within the Democratic Republic of the Congo in Central Africa, not Madagascar. * Therefore, zero pairs are correctly matched.
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