Why did Lord John want to capture a Pterodactyl to take back to

England?​

Lord John wanted to capture a Pterodactyl and take it back to England to show the world that the claims made by Professor Challenger were true.

Explanation:

The question concerns the novel, The Lost World, written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. The novel is an adventure of four men into the lost world of South America where a world of dinosaurs was established.

In the book, Lord John Roxton wanted to capture a Pterodactyl and take it back to England because he wanted to show it as a proof to Professor George Challenger's claim that dinosaurs still exist in a remote part of the world.

The textual evidence is,

"‘Don’t you think other people besides Professors can

want to know things?’"

definition was not one of the four methods

the simple predicate of the sentence is camped.