Although females prefer males with the longest tails, very long tails are typically not found

among males in their natural environment. Why might this be the case?



a. Male birds with very long tails are easily captured and eaten by predators, so they do not
survive to reproduce.
b. Male birds prefer having shorter tails.
c. Mutations have kept tail lengths from increasing.
d. There is no advantage to having increased tail length in the natural environment.


A

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