READ THE 2 PARAGRAPHS AND ANSWER THE QUESTION: 13 If our scent or voices had not spooked them, then our upright silhouettes, breaking the glacier-smoothed outline of the shore, must have signaled danger to the otters. There was no way of knowing what else, if anything, we meant to them. What did the otters mean to us? What held us there while our pancakes cooled, while acres of mist rode the current past our feet, while the sun rose above a jagged fringe of trees and poured creamy light onto the river? What did we want from these elegant swimmers?

14 Or, to put the question in the only form I can hope to answer, what did I want? Not their hides, as the native people of this territory, the Ojibwa, or the old French voyageurs might have wanted; not their souls or meat. I did not even want their photograph, although I found them surpassingly beautiful. I wanted their company. I desired their instruction—as if, by watching them, I might learn to belong somewhere as they so thoroughly belonged here. I yearned to slip out of my skin and into theirs, to feel the world for a spell through their senses, to think otter thoughts, and then to slide back into myself, a bit wiser for the journey.
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. Why does the author ask several questions in paragraphs 13 and 14?
A) To analyze his disagreements with others about how to protect nature
B) To evaluate his reasons for worrying about the creatures before him
C) To review the ways humankind has harmed nature
D) To explore his motivations for continuing to stand by the river