Excerpt from Bear Country Tips - Yellowstone Today

Yellowstone National Park

A Fed Bear Is a Dead Bear

Do not leave packs containing food unattended, even for a few minutes. If a bear obtains human food even once, it often becomes aggressive about obtaining such food, and may have to be destroyed or removed from the park.

The heading A Fed Bear is a Dead Bear is intended to

A) confuse the reader by contrasting feeding with death.

B) use irony to change the audience's mind about a misconception.

C) urge the reader to kill bears by overfeeding them with human food.

D) convince readers to conserve bear populations through feeding them.