Pg 515 (447) - Q23
The author demonstrates a lot of ambivalence or indecision throughout the passage. He doesn’t know for sure how confinement will affect wild animals in the long run. At one point he comes close to believing the curator who claims that he cannot change the behavior of condors in a couple of generations, but in the next paragraph he is “not convinced.” At one point he calls “the rationale for breeding endangered animals in zoos . . . compelling,” but at the end of the same paragraph he wonders “how their sensibilities differed from those of animals raised to roam free. Although he views the confinement of wild animals with distaste, he isn’t absolutely certain of its harmful effects. This is an attitude of ambivalence—the author isn’t convinced either way. The answer is D.