Sample Exemplification Paragraph:
Feeding Time
(Clouse: Cornerstones: Readings for Writers)
Many animals get their food in memorable ways. Consider, for
eating coconuts, so for a tasty dessert it will carry one up a palm
tree, drop it to the ground to crack it open and then scoop out the
flesh with a claw. The deep-water anglerfish does not have to go to
such lengths for its food, despite how dark it is in the depths of the
ocean. Its long spine comes equipped with a kind of light that lures
fish into its open mouth. Closer to the surface of the water it lives in,
the archerfish gets its food in an unusual way. It shoots jets of water
at insects on the river bank. Also an insect lover, the chameleon is a
sharpshooter that snatches up its insect prey in a fraction of a
second. It waits for an insect to land within range. Then it shoots out
its long tongue and catches the unsuspecting bug on the sticky tip of
the tongue. Perhaps most remarkable of all are the python and boa
snakes, who can stretch their jaws so wide that even goats can be
swallowed whole. For example, the rock python holds the goat or
deer in its mouth and coils itself tightly around the animal so that it
cannot breathe. The snake may require several hours to do so, but it
will manage to swallow its meal. Clearly, the surprising ways some
animals capture their food is a testimony to the imagination of Mother
Nature.