medium · LSAT Logical Reasoning
A wildlife conservation group found that a certain species of bird was thriving in urban parks, with populations far higher than those in its traditional forest habitats. This was unexpected because the urban parks are much smaller and contain far fewer of the specific tree species the birds use for nesting in the forest.
Which one of the following, if true, most helps to resolve the apparent paradox?
- Many of the urban parks sit right beside lakes and rivers that give the birds a steady, year-round source of fish to feed on.
- The birds' unusually vivid plumage and tuneful songs have made them great favorites among the residents of the crowded city.
- In the city the birds now nest on building ledges and in ventilation ducts, far more plentiful than forest nesting trees.
- Steady commercial logging has for many years been shrinking and fragmenting the birds' traditional forest nesting habitats.
- Urban populations of the bird have grown so explosively that the species will soon overrun nearly every city on the continent.
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