You are presented with the question "Thunder can do what to animals?" and the following answer choices: 
- decrease stamina
 - It gets heated up
 - remove fur
 - kill them
 - lengthen tails
 - protect them
 - startle them
 - improve digestion

Now knowing that loud noises can cause animals to startle and thunder, however, is more than a simple, loud explosive sound following a lightning bolt, choose the best answer.


 

       startle them  