Humans have long been fascinated by elephants, the largest land animal in the modern world. Social animals that live in herds, elephants are native to both Africa and Asia. Their large ears, long trunk, and long life span have made elephants one of the most captivating creatures on Earth. Our long-standing interest in elephants has led to several beliefs about surprising elephant behaviors.
Elephants Are Aware of Approaching Death
One of the popular beliefs is that when elephants become old and weak, they know that they are nearing the end of their lives. They demonstrate this by breaking away from their herds and going off alone to certain locations often found near bodies of water - so called "elephant graveyards" - to die alone. The idea that old elephants seem aware that they will die soon is supported by the discovery of many sites containing bones exclusively of elderly elephants.
Representing Objects through Art
Additionally, elephants seem to have artistic ability. Elephants can be taught to hold a paintbrush in their trunk and use it to paint on a canvas. Some elephants have been known to paint drawings that represent recognizable things: flowers, other elephants, even themselves. This talent makes elephants the only animal other than humans to produce art representing the world around them.
Fear of Mice
Finally, it has long been believed that elephants have a fear of mice. In 77 C.E., the Roman philosopher and scientist Pliny the Elder wrote that elephants are more afraid of mice, small mammals that can do elephants no harm, than of the much more dangerous animals with which elephants normally share an environment, such as lions or tigers. In a recent scientific experiment in which a herd of elephants was confronted with several mice, the elephants backed away from the mice and left the area to avoid them.
The reading passage and the lecture talking about surprising behaviors of elephant. Moreover, the essay revealed that there are three kind of behaviors that impact elephant’s behavior. But the author assortment and she cast a doubt about that concepts.
Elephants are aware of approaching death. The allegation of the script poses that when elephant become older and weaker, the herds are breaking away and that will lead the elephant to be alone so, that’s why their bodies being found near the water which is call graveyard. The professor opposed that concept and she claimed that is a practical reason for the elephant because their teeth getting more down and they break off their herds due to some chewing difficulties. She explained the graveyard it solely for the elephant to seek a soft vegetation near the water.
Representing objects through art. The passage asserts that the elephant has artistic ability to paint on a canvas. For instance, they can draw flowers, other elephants, and themselves. In contrast to the lecturer who explained that the elephants are not artistic but human could stroke in elephant’s ear and train them well to paint and that being influence in elephant’s memories.
Fear of mice. The essay talk about elephant’s fear from mice in spite of living around dangerous animals. And that the reason why plethora of elephants run away from the mice and leaving their spots to avoid them. Contravariant from the aerator who’s said that the fearing reaction is not from the mice but it is due to the elephants are unfamiliar with the mice and they never live in one area together.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 135, Rule ID: THERE_RE_MANY[3]
Message: Possible agreement error. Did you mean 'kinds'?
Suggestion: kinds
...the essay revealed that there are three kind of behaviors that impact elephant'...
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Line 1, column 135, Rule ID: CD_NN[1]
Message: Possible agreement error. The noun 'kind' seems to be countable, so consider using: 'kinds'.
Suggestion: kinds
...the essay revealed that there are three kind of behaviors that impact elephant'...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, if, moreover, so, well, for instance, in contrast, kind of, talking about, in contrast to, in spite of
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 12.0 10.4613686534 115% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 3.0 5.04856512141 59% => OK
Conjunction : 15.0 7.30242825607 205% => Less conjunction wanted
Relative clauses : 16.0 12.0772626932 132% => OK
Pronoun: 27.0 22.412803532 120% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 35.0 30.3222958057 115% => OK
Nominalization: 6.0 5.01324503311 120% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1382.0 1373.03311258 101% => OK
No of words: 270.0 270.72406181 100% => OK
Chars per words: 5.11851851852 5.08290768461 101% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.05360046442 4.04702891845 100% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.7627147143 2.5805825403 107% => OK
Unique words: 151.0 145.348785872 104% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.559259259259 0.540411800872 103% => OK
syllable_count: 411.3 419.366225166 98% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.55342163355 97% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 2.0 3.25607064018 61% => OK
Article: 7.0 8.23620309051 85% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 1.25165562914 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 3.0 1.51434878587 198% => OK
Preposition: 1.0 2.5761589404 39% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 15.0 13.0662251656 115% => OK
Sentence length: 18.0 21.2450331126 85% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 65.964839119 49.2860985944 134% => OK
Chars per sentence: 92.1333333333 110.228320801 84% => OK
Words per sentence: 18.0 21.698381199 83% => OK
Discourse Markers: 7.13333333333 7.06452816374 101% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 4.19205298013 48% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 3.0 4.33554083885 69% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 9.0 4.45695364238 202% => Less negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 3.0 4.27373068433 70% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.13960318141 0.272083759551 51% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.047138888548 0.0996497079465 47% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0334541997108 0.0662205650399 51% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0813598668128 0.162205337803 50% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0329776453379 0.0443174109184 74% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 11.7 13.3589403974 88% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 61.67 53.8541721854 115% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.1 11.0289183223 83% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.12 12.2367328918 99% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.16 8.42419426049 97% => OK
difficult_words: 62.0 63.6247240618 97% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 7.5 10.7273730684 70% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.2 10.498013245 88% => 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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