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.
Both the reading passage and the lecturer discuss about some unusuall behaviours of elephants. While the reading passage believe elephants have particular behaviours, the lecturer thinks these traits misinterprete and brings up some evidence to refute them.
First, the author asserts that elderly elephents are aware of their death so they will leave their herds and will go near water to continue their life lonely. Hence, many elephents' fossils discovered near the water. On the other hand, the professor declares that due to their weaken teath, elderly elephants break away from their herds because they want to find softer vegetaition to eat which are locate near the water.
Second, the writer states that elephants can produce art by their trunk. they can be taught to hold a paintbrush and after that they can depict some realistic picture such as flowers, other elephants, etc. But, the lecturer says that they can't create art by themself. They imitate their trainers when trainers depict some shapes on their ears.
Finally, the reading believe that elephants fear from Mice and when they see a meece, they scape from it. They fear from Mice more than wild animals such as lions and tigers. In contrast, the professor asserts that their fear of Mice is instinct because they unfamiliar with these creatures. If Mice live near elephants for somewhile, the elephants haven't any fear when they realize Mice.
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Suggestion: located
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Suggestion: can't; cannot
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Message: Possible spelling mistake found
Suggestion: haven't
... elephants for somewhile, the elephants havent any fear when they realize Mice.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, finally, first, hence, if, second, so, while, in contrast, such as, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 4.0 10.4613686534 38% => More to be verbs wanted.
Auxiliary verbs: 5.0 5.04856512141 99% => OK
Conjunction : 6.0 7.30242825607 82% => OK
Relative clauses : 11.0 12.0772626932 91% => OK
Pronoun: 31.0 22.412803532 138% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 26.0 30.3222958057 86% => OK
Nominalization: 2.0 5.01324503311 40% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1192.0 1373.03311258 87% => OK
No of words: 232.0 270.72406181 86% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.13793103448 5.08290768461 101% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.90276135726 4.04702891845 96% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.28778226266 2.5805825403 89% => OK
Unique words: 134.0 145.348785872 92% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.577586206897 0.540411800872 107% => OK
syllable_count: 352.8 419.366225166 84% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.55342163355 97% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 4.0 3.25607064018 123% => OK
Article: 8.0 8.23620309051 97% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 1.25165562914 160% => OK
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: 17.0 21.2450331126 80% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 43.4272839823 49.2860985944 88% => OK
Chars per sentence: 91.6923076923 110.228320801 83% => OK
Words per sentence: 17.8461538462 21.698381199 82% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.92307692308 7.06452816374 98% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 4.0 4.19205298013 95% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 2.0 4.33554083885 46% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 5.0 4.45695364238 112% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 6.0 4.27373068433 140% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.16110289752 0.272083759551 59% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0651519536499 0.0996497079465 65% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0471218381534 0.0662205650399 71% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0945412623894 0.162205337803 58% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0304528787129 0.0443174109184 69% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 11.7 13.3589403974 88% => 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: 12.24 12.2367328918 100% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.88 8.42419426049 94% => OK
difficult_words: 50.0 63.6247240618 79% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 11.0 10.7273730684 103% => 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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Note: the e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas. VIP users will receive further evaluations by advanced module of e-grader and human graders.