Over the past few years, fragmentary remains of an extinct member of the bear family called the giant short-faced bear have been discovered at sites across North America. Because the remains of this creature are incomplete, there has been extensive argument over the nature of this bear's lifestyle, and particularly over its diet. While some researchers have suggested that the short-faced bear was an omnivore, like modern black and brown bears, there is substantial evidence that the giant short-faced bear was probably a carnivore that almost exclusively ate meat.
First, it is the animal's bones that give us the clearest proof of the short-faced bear's carnivorous nature. The most recent bone remains have been dated to 13,000 years ago, and testing of those bones has shown that they contain a very high ratio of nitrogen-15 to nitrogen-14. This ratio of isotopes is a chemical signature which indicates that the animal those bones belonged to was a carnivore.
Second, the sheer size of the bear is a clue to its diet. The short-faced bear would have stood over eleven feet tall on its hind legs and was one of the largest bear species of all time. The largest bear species today is the polar bear, a species which is almost exclusively carnivorous. Given that today's largest bear is a carnivore, it is likely that the largest bear of the recent ice age shared similar dietary preferences.
Third, the legs of the short-faced bear were ideally suited to running down fleeing prey animals. The short-faced bear had the longest legs of any bear species and claws that aligned forward, rather than in the spread out formation we see on bears today. The structure of its bones and claws would have enabled it to maintain a carnivorous diet by allowing it to run down and catch a wide variety of fast-moving ice-age prey species including elk, caribou, and horses.
Both the reading passage and the lecture discusss about the nature of diet regarding giant short-faced bear. While the reading passage suggests that the bears are carnivore, the lecture contradicts this, the lecture explains that the bears are omnivore.
First of all, the reading states that giant short-faced bears bone indicate that they are carnivore, because of the nitrogen-15 which the scientists found in their bones. On the other hands, the lecture mentions that the notrogen-15 is not a hundred percent conclusive test, It does not exclude the presence of other diet. Not only this but, other omnivores contain nitrogen in their bone too.
Secondly, the reading passage states that the huge size of short-face bears is a clear indicator of their diet. and the closest bears to their size are polars bear, which are also a carnivore creatures. This contradicts directly with the lectures. The professors points out that evey bears have different enviroment. For the polar bear they secure their food from the ocean therefore, meat is the only option they have. While the short-faced bears eat plants to supplement their diet.
Finally, the reading passage mentions that giant short-faced bears compraed to any other bears type have the longest legs and claws that aligend in specific way to to help them to run and hunt preys. Again this contradicts with the lecures. The speaker states that it is true that they have long bones, but they are thin, and this would be dangerous for them attack other large preys. That will aquire them high effeorts to run in these legs. At the end he mentions that the short-faced bears run over large area to provides variety of food not only animals.
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...ore, meat is the only option they have. While the short-faced bears eat plants to sup...
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... and claws that aligend in specific way to to help them to run and hunt preys. Again ...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, finally, first, if, regarding, second, secondly, so, therefore, while, first of all, it is true, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 11.0 10.4613686534 105% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 2.0 5.04856512141 40% => OK
Conjunction : 7.0 7.30242825607 96% => OK
Relative clauses : 15.0 12.0772626932 124% => OK
Pronoun: 36.0 22.412803532 161% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 28.0 30.3222958057 92% => OK
Nominalization: 3.0 5.01324503311 60% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1420.0 1373.03311258 103% => OK
No of words: 284.0 270.72406181 105% => OK
Chars per words: 5.0 5.08290768461 98% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.10515524023 4.04702891845 101% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.38797822269 2.5805825403 93% => OK
Unique words: 142.0 145.348785872 98% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.5 0.540411800872 93% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 417.6 419.366225166 100% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.55342163355 97% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 3.0 3.25607064018 92% => OK
Article: 8.0 8.23620309051 97% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 1.25165562914 240% => Less adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 3.0 1.51434878587 198% => OK
Preposition: 3.0 2.5761589404 116% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 16.0 13.0662251656 122% => OK
Sentence length: 17.0 21.2450331126 80% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 45.4457093684 49.2860985944 92% => OK
Chars per sentence: 88.75 110.228320801 81% => OK
Words per sentence: 17.75 21.698381199 82% => OK
Discourse Markers: 7.8125 7.06452816374 111% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 4.0 4.19205298013 95% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 4.0 4.33554083885 92% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 4.0 4.45695364238 90% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 8.0 4.27373068433 187% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.210852060354 0.272083759551 77% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0803368765544 0.0996497079465 81% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0486531999165 0.0662205650399 73% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.138444363669 0.162205337803 85% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0341146866209 0.0443174109184 77% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 11.0 13.3589403974 82% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 62.68 53.8541721854 116% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 8.7 11.0289183223 79% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.42 12.2367328918 93% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.65 8.42419426049 91% => OK
difficult_words: 57.0 63.6247240618 90% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 9.0 10.7273730684 84% => OK
gunning_fog: 8.8 10.498013245 84% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 11.2008830022 80% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 78.3333333333 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 23.5 Out of 30
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