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gmat The price the goA recent study has provided clues to predator-prey dynamics in the late Pleistocene era.Researchers compared the number of tooth fractures in present-day carnivores with tooth fractures in carnivores that lived 36,000 to 10,000 years ago and that were preserved in the Rancho La Brea tar pits in Los Angeles.The breakage frequencies in the extinct species were strikingly higher than those in the present-day species.In considering possible explanations for this finding,the researchers dismissed demographic bias because older individuals were not overrepresented in the fossil samples.They rejected preservational bias because a total absence of breakage in two extinct species demonstrated that the fractures were not the result of abrasion within the pits.They ruled out local bias because breakage data obtained from other Pleistocene sites were similar to the La Brea data.The explanation they consider most plausible is behavioral differences between extinct and present-day carnivores-in particular,more contact between the teeth of predators and the bones of prey due to more thorough consumption of carcasses by the extinct species.Such thorough carcass consumption implies to the researchers either that prey availability was low,at least seasonally,or that there was intense competition over kills and a high rate of carcass theft due to relatively high predator densities.The passage suggests that tooth fractures in Pleistocene carnivores probably tended to occur less frequentlyA during periods in which more prey were availableB at sites distant from the La Brea areaC in older individual carnivoresD in species that were not preserved as fossilsE in species that regularly stole carcasses from other species定位在最后一句,不懂为什么定位在最后一句,tooth fractures么?最后一句不是没有提 tooth fractures么?