15 POINTS Read the excerpt from “Husky–The Wolf Dog of the North.”

But the husky is far from uninteresting. As a type of endurance, no better evolved product of natural selection need be sought. If ever a species has been born and bred of hard times, it has. Only the fittest, in a struggle for existence extending through a thousand thousand generations, have survived. And they are well fit.

Which best states the author’s two purposes in this excerpt?

to persuade the reader that huskies are endangered and to entertain the reader with humor
to inform the reader about natural selection and to entertain the reader with a story about a husky family
to entertain the reader with an adventure story and to inform the reader that huskies struggle
to inform the reader about huskies and to persuade the reader that huskies are interesting