Arg task essay pls critique

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Three years ago, because of flooding at the Western Palean Wildlife Preserve, 100 lions and 100 western gazelles were moved to the East Palean Preserve, an area that is home to most of the same species that are found in the western preserve, though in larger numbers, and to the eastern gazelle, a close relative of the western gazelle. The only difference in climate is that the eastern preserve typically has slightly less rainfall. Unfortunately, after three years in the eastern preserve, the imported western gazelle population has been virtually eliminated. Since the slight reduction in rainfall cannot be the cause of the virtual elimination of western gazelle, their disappearance must have been caused by the larger number of predators in the eastern preserve.

Write a response in which you discuss what specific evidence is needed to evaluate the argument and explain how the evidence would weaken or strengthen the argument.

 

The author position that the Western gazelle population have been decimated may seem plausible, but there are basic questions that need to answered to bolster his argument. First, that rainfall is not the actual cause, also, evidence of the number of species in the Eastern Preserve and also evidence that these gazzelles don’t have similar survival characteristics as their close cousins.

Firstly, it has to be evinced that low rainfall in their new habitats has not led to the precipitous decline of the Western gazzelle. Change in habitats affects many species and a reduction in rainfall may actually have been deleterious to their existence. The low rainfall could have affected the diversity of plant species available to the gazzelles and led to various form of manultrition and their sudden deaths. Plants and herbs that may be endemic in the Western Region may not be available here because of low downpour and thus led to this sharp decline. The author should give evidence that low rainfall does not affect the Western gazzelle diet and that plants available in the west are available in the Eastern preserve.

Furthermore, evidence of the actual population of species in the Eastern Preserve would bolster this argument. The author does not cite the actual variety and population of species available in the Eastern province. Statistics of the actual number of canivorous species present in the Preserve would help buttress his claim; as a prodigious amount of lions, hyenas and lepars would explain why the large numbers of the Western gazelle have been eliminated. Also, there is need for evidence on the actual number of preys available to predators, as a large variety of animals of prey would undermine this author’s assertion that their actual decline is particularly due to predators.

Finally, the author has to show that Western Gazelle are not similar to their Eastern Cousins, as there is no information of the fate of the latter, they may have survival characteristics that would make them more abundant in the East. The author has to show that the Eastern gazelle are better equipped to survive in the east. If this evidence is not given, the author’s claim of predatory as the cause of the decimation of Western gazzelle should be taken as spurious, since Eastern cousin would still be in large numbers and may have similar survival attributes as Western gazzelle. Studies that show that Easten gazzelle have certain qualities that are in lacking in their Western counterpart would surfeit.

 While their decline may be due to ravenous predatory, the author has to give the aboved named evidence for his point of view to cogent and plausible.