PT27, S4, Q5
Ticks attach themselves to host animals to feed. Having fed to capacity, and not before then, the
ticks drop off their host. Deer ticks feeding off white-footed mice invariably drop off their hosts
between noon and sunset, regardless of time of attachment. White-footed mice are strictly noc-
turnal animals that spend all daytime hours in their underground nests.
Which one of the following conclusions can be properly drawn from the statements above?
(A) Deer ticks all attach themselves to white-footed mice during the same part of the day, regard-
less of day of attachment.
(B) Deer ticks sometimes drop off their hosts without having fed at all.
(C) Deer ticks that feed off white-footed mice drop off their hosts in the hosts’ nests.
(D) White-footed mice to which deer ticks have attached themselves are not aware of the ticks.
(E) White-footed mice are hosts to stable numbers of deer ticks, regardless of season of the year.
The answer is C. I understand how it could be C but I don't understand why it can't be B.
Even though it first says that ticks do not drop off their host before fed to capacity, it also says that
"Deer ticks... invariably drop off their hosts between noon and sunset, regardless of time of attachment" which means that it could have
just attached itself before noon but did not feed itself at all and dropped off because it was between noon and sunset.
Am I thinking too much?