user: Given this paragraph, what method of scientific study did Edmund Selous champion?

assistant: Edmund Selous was a pioneer of bird-watching as a method of scientific study.

user: Is Italian closer to French or to German?

assistant: Given the latin basis, Italian has a lot more similarities to French than to German.

user: What is a sitcom?

assistant: A sitcom is a comedy that typically airs on a television network once per week for 30 minutes.