Question

31. Why do flying foxes sometimes eat fruit

from cultivated fruit trees?
A. They prefer eating cultivated fruit to
wild fruit.
B. They are better able to spread pollen
from cultivated fruit trees.
C. The number of wild fruit trees has
decreased.
D. Cultivated fruit trees are completely
dependent on bats for pollination.
E. Declining mosquito populations can no
longer feed the bats.

Answer 1

Flying foxes sometimes eat fruit from cultivated fruit trees because C. the number of wild fruit trees has decreased.
Since there are no wild trees for flying foxes to eat from, they have to find other means of survival - and so they started eating from cultivated fruit trees.