Song Birds
CAT 2018 Slot 2 · VARC · Medium · Odd One Out
Five sentences related to a topic are given below. Four of them can be put together to form a meaningful and coherent short paragraph. Identify the odd one out.
- Much has been recently discovered about the development of songs in birds.
- Some species are restricted to a single song learned by all individuals, others have a range of songs.
- The most important auditory stimuli for the birds are the sounds of other birds.
- For all bird species there is a prescribed path to development of the final song,
- A bird begins with the subsong, passes through plastic song, until it achieves the species song.
Answer
3
Explanation
Sentences 1, 4, 5, and 2 form a coherent paragraph about the development of songs in birds (1 introducing it, 4 mentioning the prescribed path, 5 detailing the stages from subsong to species song, and 2 discussing song repertoires). Sentence 3 talks about auditory stimuli in general and is the odd one out.
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