The article discusses three theories as the reason of anting in birds which means they pick up ants and rub them on to their feathers to spray formic acid on their feather. In the lecture, the professor makes a series of points that cast doubts on all the arguments presented in the article. He states that all the theories are unclear and non convincing.
First of all, he states that the only reason for the first theory is timing. In fact, relief of skin irritation during feather change in summer and this act could be completeltly coincidence. Ant are more active and visible to the birds in the summer and more anting in summer could be for this reason not just for the releif of irritation in skin of birds. Hence, this contradict with the theory in article.
Also, the professor refutes the theory of protection against parasites. He believes that if it was the case, birds ingaged in anting have to be less parasitic. However, the observations do not seem to approve fewer parasitic birds engaging in anting. Therefore, this contradicts with the idea of theory.
Lastly, lecturer claims the third theory of food preparation for birds seems thoughtful that birds rub stuff on their feather to make it ready for eat.But,they do not eat something that is stinctive and formic acid is stinctive. For instance, they rub soap and cigarret on their feather but they do not eat them.Therefore,this theory is not convincing as well.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 4, column 151, Rule ID: SENTENCE_WHITESPACE
Message: Add a space between sentences
Suggestion: But
... their feather to make it ready for eat.But,they do not eat something that is stinc...
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Line 4, column 154, Rule ID: COMMA_PARENTHESIS_WHITESPACE
Message: Put a space after the comma
Suggestion: , they
...eir feather to make it ready for eat.But,they do not eat something that is stinctive ...
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Line 4, column 312, Rule ID: SENTENCE_WHITESPACE
Message: Add a space between sentences
Suggestion: Therefore
... their feather but they do not eat them.Therefore,this theory is not convincing as well.
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Line 4, column 321, Rule ID: COMMA_PARENTHESIS_WHITESPACE
Message: Put a space after the comma
Suggestion: , this
...ather but they do not eat them.Therefore,this theory is not convincing as well.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, first, hence, however, if, lastly, so, therefore, third, well, for instance, in fact, first of all
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 10.0 10.4613686534 96% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 2.0 5.04856512141 40% => OK
Conjunction : 8.0 7.30242825607 110% => OK
Relative clauses : 7.0 12.0772626932 58% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 26.0 22.412803532 116% => OK
Preposition: 36.0 30.3222958057 119% => OK
Nominalization: 6.0 5.01324503311 120% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1189.0 1373.03311258 87% => OK
No of words: 247.0 270.72406181 91% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 4.81376518219 5.08290768461 95% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.96437052324 4.04702891845 98% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.6852819962 2.5805825403 104% => OK
Unique words: 129.0 145.348785872 89% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.522267206478 0.540411800872 97% => OK
syllable_count: 353.7 419.366225166 84% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.4 1.55342163355 90% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 8.0 3.25607064018 246% => Less pronouns wanted as sentence beginning.
Article: 4.0 8.23620309051 49% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 1.25165562914 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 0.0 1.51434878587 0% => OK
Preposition: 2.0 2.5761589404 78% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 13.0 13.0662251656 99% => OK
Sentence length: 19.0 21.2450331126 89% => OK
Sentence length SD: 51.2009615294 49.2860985944 104% => OK
Chars per sentence: 91.4615384615 110.228320801 83% => OK
Words per sentence: 19.0 21.698381199 88% => OK
Discourse Markers: 8.38461538462 7.06452816374 119% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 4.0 4.19205298013 95% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 3.0 4.33554083885 69% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 6.0 4.45695364238 135% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 4.0 4.27373068433 94% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.124695086844 0.272083759551 46% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0428059882739 0.0996497079465 43% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0576367337249 0.0662205650399 87% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0849778965548 0.162205337803 52% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0252163702522 0.0443174109184 57% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 10.7 13.3589403974 80% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 69.11 53.8541721854 128% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 8.3 11.0289183223 75% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 10.62 12.2367328918 87% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.16 8.42419426049 97% => OK
difficult_words: 56.0 63.6247240618 88% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 7.5 10.7273730684 70% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.6 10.498013245 91% => OK
text_standard: 8.0 11.2008830022 71% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 75.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 22.5 Out of 30
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