How Does Staying Underground in a Burrow During the Day

question 60

Multiple Choice

How does staying underground in a burrow during the day help a kangaroo rat conserve water?

• A) They're safer from predators and can go out and drink at night.
• B) It's too hot in a desert for any mammal to be out during the day at all.
• C) The food absorbs moisture from the ground and the rats get extra water that way.
• D) Their exhalation in the burrow keeps the humidity high, the food absorbs that water, and they thereby recycle some of the water they lose through respiration
• E) Because they each have their own "territory" in a burrow, they don't have to compete for water there.

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