▶ Your Answer :
While the author of the reading passage argues that there are three reasons
why the wolf-dog called Warrah came to the island named Falkland, the lecturer
opposes the reading’s assertion with counter views.
First of all, the speaker maintains that the opinion that ancient
South Americans crossed the sea by canoes with wolves and foxes and settled in
Folkland together seems to be baseless because those animals are not ancestors
of the Warrah. To explain, not only there are no DNA evidence proving that
wolf-dogs evolved from wolves or foxes, but also the dogs’ bones dating back to
33000 years ago mean that they inhabited the island prior to human beings. This
contradicts the reading passage’s argument that old people in South America sailed
to Folkland with some animals which were forebears of the Warrah.
Additionally, the professor contends that the claim that people of
ancient South America brought Warrahs to Forkland through an ice bridge looks
to be flawed since food was so scarce in the isle that any animal would have
died of hunger during the ice age. However, only wolf-dogs could survive this
severe condition in that they were native species to the place, enabling them
to manage to find their sustenance easily. This casts doubt on the idea
presented in the article that Warrahs went to Folkand along with South
Americans through an ice bridge.
Finally, the debater mentions that the indication that people
domesticated wolf-dogs into submissive ones appears to be mistaken, owing to
the fact that they were neither pets nor livestock at first. To be more
specific, living in Folkland where was isolated from the mainland, wolf-dogs were
only predators without enemy. Thus, they did not need to be on the alert in the
wild, having a docile attitude towards humans. This goes against the point of
the text that primordial men accompanied wolf-dogs onto the island and tamed
these animals as pets or livestock. |