Question

Summaries the following passage in not more than a hundred and fifty (150) words.

PASSAGE

ANIMAL doctors? Why, that may sound like something out of a child’s storybook. Yet it is a fact

that many animals are quite successful when it comes to treating their ailments. And they do this in

ways that frequently prove to be more effective than those used by man. Yes, animals have been

endowed with an instinctive ability to treat themselves when they have certain afflictions. Archibald

Rutledge, a writer and naturalist, recalls that when he was a plantation boy he kept many wild

animals as pets, one of them being a little white-tailed deer. One day he found that his pet had torn

a nasty gash in its side on a barbed-wire fence. To help heal the wound, he cleansed it and carefully

bandaged it.

However, the deer seemed to know better what to do about this than did its human friend.

The fawn pulled the bandage off, carefully licked the hair away from the injured area and then

exposed it fully to the fresh air and sunlight. What happened? In a short time, the wound was healed.

How was this little deer able to get such good results? It has been found that animals have a first-​

Answer 1

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Explanation: The passage establishes that animals can treat and heal their wounds successfully unaided. To support this assertion, the passage narrated Archibald Rutledge's experience with a injured deer who seemed uncomfortable with the treatment received from a human in a bid to heal his injury and instead utilized personal strategy of opening up the wound, licking and exposing the injured area to sunlight worked for the deer. It was however found that animals posses enzymes which serves as antiseptic and resist the presence of bacteria on their tongue which was key to healing the deer's wound.