Directions (Qs. 48 to 65): In this section, there are six short passages. Each passage is followed by questions based on the passage. Read each passage and answer the questions that follow.

Passage-3

We started looking on the ground for blood, hair, or a drag mark that would lead us to the deer killed by the tiger. We had proceeded a hundred yards, examining every foot of the ground, and going dead slow, when Mothi, just as I turned my head to look at him, started backwards, screaming as he did so. Then he whipped round and ran for dear life, beating the air with his hands as if warding off a swarm of bees and continuing to scream. The scream of a human being in a jungle where a moment before all had been silent is terrifying to hear. Instinctively I knew what had happened. With his eyes fixed on the ground, looking for the blood or hair of the kill, Mothi had failed to see where he was going, and had walked straight towards the tiger.

54. Mothi and the narrator were scanning the ground because