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Sorry then here's your shmoop du jour brought to you

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by baboons If you've ever wondered what motivated monkeys to

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evolve it's probably because one of these guys looked in

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the mirror sorry and check out this passage on a

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born bad news Bananas have appeal How would you change

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the underlined portion below if at all conditions they faced

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in infancy And here the potential answers Okay so this

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is excerpted from something called bad news for baboons This

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doesn't have anything to do with their careless derrieres does

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it All right there are children around Can't you put

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a bandage and some gauze on that thing All right

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So according to this excerpt anyway the bad news is

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that baboon population is taking a nosedive thanks to a

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bad drought considering the drought california's been dealing with it

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makes you wonder if that's why we don't see more

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baboons in hollywood way Take that back The question wants

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to know how we should write the last sentence Researchers

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looked at how conditions they faced in infancy played a

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role in coping with the drought wealth we know that

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they hear is in reference to the baboons We owe

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you one context clues but the way this sense is

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structured it makes it sound as if it's the researchers

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whose conditions were focused on here Fortunately the researcher population

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is healthy and thriving So we can move along is

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not our guy Or what about see their infant conditions

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Yeah same issue There's Still nothing in this sentence to

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indicate that we're talking about what the baboons had to

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deal with in their infancy The researchers might have had

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some rough childhoods but we're not really here to play

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Psychiatrist soc is out Next up the the infant baboons

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Ah here is that mention of baboons we were looking

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for Unfortunately we doubt that older baboons are relying on

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a crack team of baby baboons with extensive drought experience

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to get them through the tough times This phrase still

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isn't quite saying what we needed to so d is

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out as well and here we go b b suggests

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that we change that part too Conditions the baboons faced

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in infancy Yep it's The conditions they faced and struggled

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through that prepared them for later tribulations So b is

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the one Sadly nothing can prepare them for catching a 00:02:14.45 --> [endTime] glimpse of their face in a rain puddle

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