The correct answer is:
This is an example of the writer telling through description rather than showing through dialogue.
Sometimes writers like to explain explicitely what's happening instead of adding dialogues of the situations., which is the case in this passage,
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"was laughed at and made out fun on account of his look and the sound of his voice.
<span>Friday 5 July 2002 05.38 EDT </span> <span>First published on Friday 5 July 2002 05.38 EDT </span> It was an anonymous phone call in the hot summer of 1944 which led the Gestapo and Dutch security police to the concealed annexe in a canalside house where Anne Frank and her family had hidden for almost two years. For almost 60 years, the identity of that informant, whose call had such tragic consequences, has remained a mystery to historians and the most dogged Nazi hunters.
But Dutch government historians disclosed yesterday that two new theories about who betrayed 15-year-old Jewish schoolgirl Anne Frank to the Nazis in occupied Amsterdam are so compelling that they are reopening their investigations.
Answer: it sounds like the lower animal is at lower risk of getting eaten. Which is why roosters are a higher animal then humans.