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.
In this set of materials, the reading and lecture both discuss Elephant, the fascinating creature. The writer strongly postulates that Elephants are most interesting and amazing animals and, provides three fascinating beliefs about elephants to endorse its idea. However, the lecture mentions that commonly held belief about elephants are nothing more than misconception and misunderstanding and, gainsay each argument from the reading.
First and foremost, the writer begins by asserting that elephants recognize that they are going to die therefore, they migrate to certain locations after breaking off from their herds, and die calmly near water bodies called "elephant graveyard". On the other hand, the lecturer dismisses this point by insisting the breaking off from herd and moving to different location is due to the reason that older elephants doot have strong teeth. As a result, they could not maintain their previous feeding habits. So they mover near to the water bodies where they can easily get soft vegetational food which are easier for them to chew, and eventually they die there and and so elephant graveyard come to existence.
Furthermore, the lecturer mentions that elephants exhibit artistic skills as they are trained to use painting brush. He exemplifies that it is often seen that trainer strikes the elephant ear while they were painting.Due to the reason that elephant ears are sensitive stroking helped them to recall the pattern which they are already practiced. he goes on to say that these painting are mere lines or strokes not actual painting of humans or flowers. These claims clearly refute the writer's implication that elephants possess painting skills as they represent pictures through their drawings. Hence, they could be taught artistic skills by holding brush in their trunk
Ultimately, the writer wraps up its arguments by declaring that another interesting fact about elephants is that theyare terrified from the small animal such as mice whereas they bahve normally with a fierce animal like lions. Not surprisingly, the lecturer takes an issue with that by contending that this attitude is intrinsic behavior as elephants are familiar to the lion , therefore they do not scared from them. However, because mice are strangers to them they get scared. He provide a piece of evidence for his claim that elephant lived in the zoo were not frightened by mice as they get used to their presence in zoo.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
first, furthermore, hence, however, if, so, therefore, whereas, while, such as, as a result, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 17.0 10.4613686534 163% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 3.0 5.04856512141 59% => OK
Conjunction : 13.0 7.30242825607 178% => OK
Relative clauses : 19.0 12.0772626932 157% => OK
Pronoun: 52.0 22.412803532 232% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 47.0 30.3222958057 155% => OK
Nominalization: 7.0 5.01324503311 140% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2064.0 1373.03311258 150% => OK
No of words: 392.0 270.72406181 145% => Less content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.26530612245 5.08290768461 104% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.44960558625 4.04702891845 110% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.68488956488 2.5805825403 104% => OK
Unique words: 223.0 145.348785872 153% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.56887755102 0.540411800872 105% => OK
syllable_count: 621.9 419.366225166 148% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.55342163355 103% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 7.0 3.25607064018 215% => Less pronouns wanted as sentence beginning.
Article: 9.0 8.23620309051 109% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 1.25165562914 160% => OK
Conjunction: 2.0 1.51434878587 132% => OK
Preposition: 2.0 2.5761589404 78% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 15.0 13.0662251656 115% => OK
Sentence length: 26.0 21.2450331126 122% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively long.
Sentence length SD: 66.2579471124 49.2860985944 134% => OK
Chars per sentence: 137.6 110.228320801 125% => OK
Words per sentence: 26.1333333333 21.698381199 120% => OK
Discourse Markers: 7.33333333333 7.06452816374 104% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 7.0 4.19205298013 167% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 6.0 4.33554083885 138% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 6.0 4.45695364238 135% => OK
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: 0.194774746171 0.272083759551 72% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0713811768409 0.0996497079465 72% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0456986137532 0.0662205650399 69% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.125655348768 0.162205337803 77% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0190667225711 0.0443174109184 43% => Paragraphs are similar to each other. Some content may get duplicated or it is not exactly right on the topic.
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 16.5 13.3589403974 124% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 45.09 53.8541721854 84% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 5.55761589404 158% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 13.4 11.0289183223 121% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.58 12.2367328918 111% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.12 8.42419426049 108% => OK
difficult_words: 104.0 63.6247240618 163% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 14.5 10.7273730684 135% => OK
gunning_fog: 12.4 10.498013245 118% => OK
text_standard: 14.0 11.2008830022 125% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 83.3333333333 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 25.0 Out of 30
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