(ii) energy/force (para K)
(iii) endurance (Para M)
Passage 3
A) In India, during the last 200 years, tracts of wooded wilderness have
shrunk on an unprecedented scale. Alongside, the denizens of those
dense jungles-animals have also disappeared.
B) Till the 1880s, there wore wolves in the neighbourhood of the old
cantonment and leopards on the prowl in Tughlakabad, Delhi.
Crocodiles thronged the banks of the river Yamuna between Purana
Qila and Okhla and could be "seen any afternoon in hundreds
swimming about or basking on the edge of the water.") Anis@
C) Animals can still be seen in Delhi. However, for the average citizen, the
only window into wildlife is the zoo. There are many species of animals
and birds, no doubt, but it is a spectacle of natural wildlife squeezed
into unnatural surroundings. Animals, isolated from one another,
forced into cramped cages and enclosed spaces.
D) Animals have been killed for food over thousands of years. In
pre-historic times, in fact, animal hunting was indispensable as a
source of food. This is underlined by the preponderance of depictions of
the hunting of boars, rhinos and deers in the pre-historic rock paintings
of forest areas in Madhya PradeshAt the same time, fas this study
points out, even after food production began, wild flesh continued to be
greatly enjoyed. The Harappans, for instance, exploited numerous
species of animals. Domestic cattle, of course, were their favourite
animal food but they also ate varieties of deer, rodents and marine
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resources.
E) Also striking is the hunting and meat-eating capacity of the Mughals.
Emperor Akbar is known to have kept a thousand cheetahs to hunt
animals like the antelope and the gazelle. His son, Jahangir, was
especially prodigious. In the first 12 years of his reign, he killed over
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