Summarize the points made in the lecture, being sure to explain how they challenge the specific points made in the reading passage.
In the reading material, the author cites three beliefs about elephants' fascinating behaviors. Nevertheless, the lecturer in the listening material argues that these beliefs are based on misunderstanding and opposes the points in the reading material.
First and foremost, the author argues that elephants are aware of approaching death since many discoveries have shown that when elephants become old, they may break away from their herds and go off alone to certain locations near bodies of water. However, the lecturer offers an opposite stand with a practical reason. Elephants leave their home when they are old because their teeth are weakened, which damage their ability of chewing food. Therefore, they should find softer vegetables to eat, which mostly grow near bodies of water, and die there forming an elephant graveyard.
In addition, the lecturer casts doubt on the author's another belief that elephants can represent objects through art as they can be taught to hold a paintbrush in their trunk and to paint recognizable things making them the only animal other than humans to create art representing the world around them. The lecturer then demonstrates that human often strokes elephants' ears to train them to paint due to the sensitivity of elephants' ears. They can remember certain path and repetite it through being touched by their ears, which does not indicate that elephants can represent the world around them.
Finally, the author's thrid belief that elephants have a fear of mice, small mammals that can do no harm to elephants, based on the records in 77C.E and a recent scientific experimemt is also a counteracted by the lecturer who points out that elephants are not afraid of mice itself but because they do not know about mice, which is a certain natural instinct. Elephants in the zoo, which realize the mice, do not mind about them.
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 7, column 147, Rule ID: SENTENCE_WHITESPACE
Message: Add a space between sentences
Suggestion: E
... elephants, based on the records in 77C.E and a recent scientific experimemt is a...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, finally, first, however, if, may, nevertheless, so, then, therefore, in addition
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 9.0 10.4613686534 86% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 7.0 5.04856512141 139% => OK
Conjunction : 8.0 7.30242825607 110% => OK
Relative clauses : 17.0 12.0772626932 141% => OK
Pronoun: 29.0 22.412803532 129% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 43.0 30.3222958057 142% => OK
Nominalization: 1.0 5.01324503311 20% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1571.0 1373.03311258 114% => OK
No of words: 306.0 270.72406181 113% => OK
Chars per words: 5.1339869281 5.08290768461 101% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.18244613648 4.04702891845 103% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.57604452262 2.5805825403 100% => OK
Unique words: 174.0 145.348785872 120% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.56862745098 0.540411800872 105% => OK
syllable_count: 467.1 419.366225166 111% => 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: 7.0 8.23620309051 85% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 1.25165562914 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 1.0 1.51434878587 66% => OK
Preposition: 2.0 2.5761589404 78% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 11.0 13.0662251656 84% => Need more sentences. Double check the format of sentences, make sure there is a space between two sentences, or have enough periods. And also check the lengths of sentences, maybe they are too long.
Sentence length: 27.0 21.2450331126 127% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively long.
Sentence length SD: 90.3551303844 49.2860985944 183% => OK
Chars per sentence: 142.818181818 110.228320801 130% => OK
Words per sentence: 27.8181818182 21.698381199 128% => OK
Discourse Markers: 8.27272727273 7.06452816374 117% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 4.19205298013 24% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 3.0 4.33554083885 69% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 5.0 4.45695364238 112% => 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: 0.104871425909 0.272083759551 39% => The similarity between the topic and the content is low.
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0462394756568 0.0996497079465 46% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0373180951957 0.0662205650399 56% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0724461698631 0.162205337803 45% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0304896817048 0.0443174109184 69% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 16.6 13.3589403974 124% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 52.53 53.8541721854 98% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 5.55761589404 158% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 12.6 11.0289183223 114% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.77 12.2367328918 104% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.23 8.42419426049 98% => OK
difficult_words: 63.0 63.6247240618 99% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.0 10.7273730684 103% => OK
gunning_fog: 12.8 10.498013245 122% => OK
text_standard: 13.0 11.2008830022 116% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 81.6666666667 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 24.5 Out of 30
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