Arrange the following sentences in a logical order to form a coherent paragraph:
(A) For years, researchers in Ladakh believed that only a handful of snow leopards survived in the high valleys above the village of Rumbak.
(B) Such a count would have been impossible a decade ago, when a single sighting depended on luck and weeks of waiting in the cold.
(C) When the memory cards were finally checked in spring, the photographs showed at least nine different cats, each known by its spots.
(D) To test this, they fixed thirty camera traps along the rocky ridges and left them running through the long winter.
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 2
The correct answer is Option (2) → (A), (D), (C), (B)
Rearranged Parts:
(A) For years, researchers in Ladakh believed that only a handful of snow leopards survived in the high valleys above the village of Rumbak.
(D) To test this, they fixed thirty camera traps along the rocky ridges and left them running through the long winter.
(C) When the memory cards were finally checked in spring, the photographs showed at least nine different cats, each known by its spots.
(B) Such a count would have been impossible a decade ago, when a single sighting depended on luck and weeks of waiting in the cold.
Complete paragraph: For years, researchers in Ladakh believed that only a handful of snow leopards survived in the high valleys above the village of Rumbak. To test this, they fixed thirty camera traps along the rocky ridges and left them running through the long winter. When the memory cards were finally checked in spring, the photographs showed at least nine different cats, each known by its spots. Such a count would have been impossible a decade ago, when a single sighting depended on luck and weeks of waiting in the cold.