Name : Mohamad Faizwan Bin Abd Samad (2020956881)

Article Assignment

1.Practice Identifying Topic sentences and Supporting details

Paragraph 1
Topic sentences – Psychologist Marina Davila-Ross set out to study orangutans at a wildlife
rehabilitation centre in Borneo, she had no idea that she’d soon make an important
discovery that involved an entirely different species.
Supporting details – 1. Davila-Ross decided to switch the focus of her research away from
orangutans. 2. She focused instead on the sun bear’s surprisingly complex communication
skills.

Paragraph 2
Topic sentences – Sun bears are somewhat reclusive.
Supporting details – 1. They are rottweiler-sized southeast Asian rain forest dwellers. 2. The
animals are known as the world’s smallest bears.
Topic sentences – Davila-Ross and her co-workers found that sun bears are capable of
mimicking each other’s facial expressions very accurately.
Supporting details – 1. This skill was previously believed to be unique to human and gorillas.
2. Hey suggest such advance behaviour isn’t limited to famously social creatures.

Paragraph 3
Topic sentences – According to Gizmodo’s Ryan F. Mandelbaum, the team spent two years
observing 22 sun bears housed at the Borneon facility.
Supporting details – 1. The scientist recorded 372 instances of play. 2. They spotted two
main facial expressions: …

Paragraph 4
Topic sentences – Amber Jorgenson wrote about the study for Discover.
Supporting details – She reported that around 20 percent of the time, the bears returned a
playmate’s expression within one second of seeing it.

Paragraph 5
Topic sentences – Overall, the researches report that the sun bears were more likely to
reflect facial expressions during gentle play.
Supporting details – However, New Scientist notes that the study points toward their use of
facial mimicry to indicate desire for rough play or building social bonds.

Paragraph 6
Topic sentences – Humans were among the only animals known to change their facial
expression in response to another’s actions.
Supporting details – The exact expression matching achieved by sun bears was thought to be
behaviour perfected solely by human and gorillas.
 Paragraph 7
Topic sentences – Sun bears are far less social
Supporting details -They prefer to forge their own paths rather than settle down in large
hierarchical groups.

Paragraph 8
Topic sentences – Taylor is a university of Portsmouth Ph.D. student and co-author of the
study.
Supporting details – “…..” Derry Taylor says in a press release.

Paragraph 9
Topic sentences – Palagi says that she would like to see a study that measures how
familiarity affects facial mimicry.
Supporting details – 1. In a \n interview, she adds that the bears studied in the new paper
live….. 2. Given that, Palagi suggests hat the animals become familiar with each other. This
may make it easier for them to learn various social cues.

Paragraph 10
Topic sentences – Taylor highlights two possible avenues for further research
Supporting details – 1. He explains that one….. 2. There is another option. Taylor says, “it
could be that there are deeper…”.

2. Main idea of the article and use at least two supporting details from the article .
Main idea- mimicking
Synonym- filed

3. Main idea
the main idea of this article is the sun bear do the mimic face to each other and show their facial expression
to communicate. the main idea can be conclude that, the recorded found by scientists that they spotted two main
facial expressions which is one saw the animal raising its upper lip and nose to show the upper incisors, while the
other found the bear opting to hide its teeth. In addition, according to Amber Jorgenson she reported that around
20 percent of the time, the bears returned a playmate's expression within one second of seeing it. If one bear
grinned, its partner mirrored the exact same movement 82 percent of the time like when a toothless expression was
at play, mimicking occurred closer to 72 percent of the time