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 author and the lecturer discuss some beliefs about elephant behaviors. The passage claims that there are several widely-held beliefs about surprising elephant behaviors. The professor, on the other hand, completely reject whatever mentioned in the reading through citing three reasons.
First both the author and the professor talk about approaching death. According to the passage, 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 lecturer, nevertheless, rejects the author's view and illustrates the idea that old elephants have difficulty in chewing, so they have to find softer vegetation. they break away from their herds and leave herds for softer foods that is found near waters. they die near waters after a while which is called 'graveyard'.
Second of all, both the reading and the lecture discuss representing art. The author argues that 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 such as flower. However, the professor refutes this, saying that elephants’ ears are sensitive. Trainers touch elephants’ ears in order to train them to move paintbrush with a specific pattern. Therefore, elephants can remember and repeat drawing the objects by touching their ears over and over again. they do not have any idea about what lines represent.
Eventually, the passage and the lecture address the subject of fear of mice. The passage goes on to mention that elephants are afraid of mice than of the much dangerous animals such as lions or tigers. In contrast, the professor points out that because of wild elephants are unfamiliar with mice, they are afraid of them. Nonetheless, domesticated elephants in zoo do not have any fear of mice because they have got accustomed to them .
All in all, the author maintains that there some popular beliefs about elephants characteristics, while the professor not only cast doubt, but she also demonstrates that there are some misunderstanding about elephants behavior.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, first, however, if, nevertheless, nonetheless, second, so, therefore, while, in contrast, such as, 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 : 13.0 7.30242825607 178% => OK
Relative clauses : 13.0 12.0772626932 108% => OK
Pronoun: 32.0 22.412803532 143% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 52.0 30.3222958057 171% => 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: 1940.0 1373.03311258 141% => OK
No of words: 368.0 270.72406181 136% => OK
Chars per words: 5.27173913043 5.08290768461 104% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.37987740619 4.04702891845 108% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.76218107989 2.5805825403 107% => OK
Unique words: 199.0 145.348785872 137% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.540760869565 0.540411800872 100% => OK
syllable_count: 576.0 419.366225166 137% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.55342163355 103% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 6.0 3.25607064018 184% => OK
Article: 9.0 8.23620309051 109% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 1.25165562914 160% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 1.51434878587 66% => OK
Preposition: 3.0 2.5761589404 116% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 21.0 13.0662251656 161% => OK
Sentence length: 17.0 21.2450331126 80% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 39.8038273436 49.2860985944 81% => OK
Chars per sentence: 92.380952381 110.228320801 84% => OK
Words per sentence: 17.5238095238 21.698381199 81% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.04761904762 7.06452816374 86% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.09492273731 122% => OK
Language errors: 6.0 4.19205298013 143% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 3.0 4.33554083885 69% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 10.0 4.45695364238 224% => Less negative sentences wanted.
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: 0.172766749763 0.272083759551 63% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0557936731031 0.0996497079465 56% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0367969957392 0.0662205650399 56% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0946544777564 0.162205337803 58% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0340308451282 0.0443174109184 77% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.2 13.3589403974 91% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 54.22 53.8541721854 101% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.9 11.0289183223 90% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.99 12.2367328918 106% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.78 8.42419426049 92% => OK
difficult_words: 77.0 63.6247240618 121% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 7.5 10.7273730684 70% => OK
gunning_fog: 8.8 10.498013245 84% => OK
text_standard: 8.0 11.2008830022 71% => 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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