In Many Rural Areas of the United States of America,salt

In many rural areas of the United States of America,salt licks are placed in the wilderness so that animals can ingest nutrients that are vital to their health and survival.The fact that these animals instinctively know to go to these areas to feed at the salt licks demonstrates that

A) food preference may be a partially unlearned, or innate, response.
B) animals recognize that although human beings are predators, they must be counted on for the animal's survival.
C) human beings are higher on the evolutionary ladder because we do not have instinctive food preferences.
D) animals that are able to seek out their own digestive needs are higher on the evolutionary ladder than animals that are not.