Part A Which inference can be drawn from the paragraph from "The

Day the Gulls Went Crazy"?

O Larry was the first person to be attacked by gulls

Birds lack the ability to communicate with each

other

O Nesting colonial birds may consider people a threat

Colonial birds have a weak response toward

predators

O

Part B

Which textual evidence best supports the answer to Part A?

"If the alarm is strong enough, it travels through the

colony like a wave"

"The alarmed birds scream, dive-bomb, and harass

the predator to drive it away"

"People who walk near colonies of nesting birds

O often get mobbed in the same way that a fox, a

coyote, or an eagle might"

"When one bird in a colony spots a predator, it is

up and sounds an alarm