Card 13 / 112: While hiking through the mountains during the fall, you notice that many of the elk are grouped with one male to many females, and it appears that those males with more points and larger racks tend to have more females in their group than males with fewer points and smaller racks. Is this an example of natural selection or sexual selection, and why?
A) Natural Selection, because these males are reproducing more, which is adaptive, and their rack size could be influenced by abiotic and/or biotic factors such as forage availability
B) Sexual Selection, because these males are reproducing more, which is adaptive, and their rack size could be influenced by abiotic and/or biotic factors such as forage availability
C) Natural selection, because if these males mate with each of these females, then the males with more points and larger racks will be reproducing at a greater rate and this is an example of selection that may not necessarily be adaptive and is determined by the individual elk
D) Sexual selection, because if these males mate with each of these females, then the males with more points and larger racks will be reproducing at a greater rate and this is an example of selection that may not necessarily be adaptive and is determined by the individual elk

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