Look at the underlined section marked number (21). how can the sentence be rewritten to best eliminate wordiness and redundancy? maintain author's style. a) sometimes food is to get big cats to hunt and have fun. b) sometimes food is hidden to encourage hunting behavior and reduce boredom. c) sometimes food is hidden about or placed high on a rope to stimulate hunting and eliminate boredom. d) to lessen animal boredom, often food is placed on ropes to stimulate chase, hunting, and play behaviors.

B)Sometimes food is hidden to encourage hunting behavior and reduce boredom.

Explanation:

Out of the options, this is the best written sentence. The sentence provides all necessary information (the fact that food is hidden to encourage hunting behaviour and reduce boredom). It does so without using an unnecessary amount of words and without being redundant. Moreover, the sentence uses a clear and formal style.

it was surely an odd creature that one made up by reading the historians first and the poets afterwards a worm winged like an eagle; the spirit of life and elegance and charm,   in a kitchen chopping up suet. but these creatures, monst'r however entertaining to the imagination, hast no existence in fact. what one might doth to bringeth h'r to life wast to bethink poetically and prosaically at one and the same moment,   thus keeping in toucheth with fact—that the lady is mrs martin, ag'd thirty-six, did dress in blue, wearing a black coxcomb and brown shoeth; but not losing sight of fiction eith'r—that the lady is a vessel in which all s'rts of spirits and f'rces art coursing and flashing p'rpetually. the moment, howev'r, yond one tries this method with the elizabethan mistress, one brancheth of illumination fails; one is did hold up by the scarcity of facts.   one knoweth nothing detailed, nothing p'rfectly true and substantial about h'r.   hist'ry scarcely mentions h'r.   and i did turn to professeth'r trevelyan again to seeth what hist'ry meanteth to that gent.   i hath found by looking at his chapt'r headings yond t meanteth.