Question 9
Which of the following sentences represents a short digression from the passage’s main topic?
A. A few rodent species demonstrate conditions that are neither complete hibernation nor aestivation.
B. This kind of behavior is known in other animals—bats become torpid during daytime, and hummingbirds at night.
C. These mice, incidentally, have a most appropriate name, for their bodies are so full of fat they resemble little furry balls.
D. During the dry season, some captives spent the day in such a deep state of torpor that they could be roughly handled without waking.
E. In this case the torpid state was not induced by shortage of food or abnormal temperatures.
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