Discussion
As many as thirty sightings of king cobras were recorded in residential areas across Kerala within a year and most of them were caught from bathrooms and courtyards of houses, and roads.
A study conducted by the researchers of the Department of Zoology, University of Kerala, and the Reptile Study Group, Thiruvananthapuram, has revealed that the king cobra, the world's longest venomous snake, is under increasing pressure from habitat loss.
The passage best supports the statement that:
Answer: B
Correct answer: Large-scale deforestation and the disturbances caused by poachers and illicit liquor-brewers could be forcing king cobras to migrate.
The passage gives an observation - thirty sightings in residential areas in a year - and then the researchers’ explanation, that the king cobra is under increasing pressure from habitat loss. This option supplies the same causal account: habitat destruction driving the snakes out. The option claiming king cobras were never known to enter human territory adds a fact the passage does not give, and the one about butterflies changes the subject.
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