CBSE ENGLISH LANGUAGE & LITERATURE

Detailed explanation-1: -Answer: (a) The creature, that the author is talking about, is his pet otter, named as Mijbil. (b) The creature was covered with symmetrical pointed scales of mud armour from head to the tip of the tail.

Detailed explanation-2: -It was a gift from his friend. He named the otter Mijbil or shortly, Mij. It took some time for Mij to open up and get acquainted with his surroundings. He was covered in mud to an extent that it took almost a month of cleaning and washing to reveal his actual colour.

Detailed explanation-3: -armoured mud ball, large ball of silt and clay, coated (armoured) with a poorly sorted mixture of gravel and sand. In many cases they are nearly spherical, with diameters ranging from a fraction of a centimetre to 50 centimetres (20 inches) but commonly 5–10 centimetres (2–4 inches).

Detailed explanation-4: -The writer called his pet ‘Mijbil’ or in short, ‘Mij’. Mijbil was a part of a race of otters that had been recently discovered by a zoologist named Lutrogale Perspicillata Maxwell and was thus known as Maxwell’s otter. It required the otter a little time to open up and settle in his new surroundings.

Detailed explanation-5: -The otter was named by zoologists as Lutrogale Perspicillata maxwelli. Hence, it was called ‘Maxwell’s otter’ in short. Was this answer helpful?