The reading passage discusses about the migration patterns of humpback whales and proposes the idea that they might be using the stars to navigate. The points presented in support of the above mentioned idea are totally contrasted by those made in the lecture.
First of all, the lecturer mentions that the intelligence level of humpback whales and their ability to navigate are not at all relatable and cites the example of a creature which is not much intelligent as that of the humpback whale i.e., a duck. He says that ducks are able to navigate using stars because they are born with that ability and not because they are intelligent. This point contrasts the idea put forward by the reading passage that humpback whales are capable of navigating by stars because they have high intellectual power than most other animals.
Again, humpback whales are found to migrate in straight lines and this is possible only if they orient themselves to some external forces or objects as given in the passage. Since, humpback whales swim in oceans, they are compelled to take the help of the position of stars in the night sky so as to maintain their swimming direction straight. This is contrasted by the point that humpback whales have biomagnetite inside their brains and this allows them to orient themselves to the earth's magnetic field. Thus, the lecture suggests that the humpback whales actually navigate using the earth's magnetic field rather than the stars in the night sky.
The lecturer boldly puts forward the statement that spy-hopping has nothing to do with stars because humpback whales are found to spy-hop even during the day when no stars appear in the sky. The statement is once again supported by another example of sharks that are found to spy-hop too but they donot spy-hop to navigate using stars. Instead, sharks spy-hop to look for preys they can hunt. Thus, the lecture contrasts and casts doubts on every point mentioned in the reading passage and provides apt proofs in favour of the doubts casted.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 3, column 267, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...k whale i.e., a duck. He says that ducks are able to navigate using stars because...
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Line 5, column 292, Rule ID: SO_AS_TO[1]
Message: Use simply 'to'
Suggestion: to
... the position of stars in the night sky so as to maintain their swimming direction strai...
^^^^^^^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
actually, but, first, if, look, so, thus, as to, first of all
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 15.0 10.4613686534 143% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 2.0 5.04856512141 40% => OK
Conjunction : 10.0 7.30242825607 137% => OK
Relative clauses : 12.0 12.0772626932 99% => OK
Pronoun: 31.0 22.412803532 138% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 48.0 30.3222958057 158% => OK
Nominalization: 6.0 5.01324503311 120% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1688.0 1373.03311258 123% => OK
No of words: 342.0 270.72406181 126% => OK
Chars per words: 4.93567251462 5.08290768461 97% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.30037696126 4.04702891845 106% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.37593926213 2.5805825403 92% => OK
Unique words: 166.0 145.348785872 114% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.485380116959 0.540411800872 90% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 510.3 419.366225166 122% => 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: 0.0 1.25165562914 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 0.0 1.51434878587 0% => OK
Preposition: 0.0 2.5761589404 0% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 13.0 13.0662251656 99% => OK
Sentence length: 26.0 21.2450331126 122% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively long.
Sentence length SD: 42.9496746927 49.2860985944 87% => OK
Chars per sentence: 129.846153846 110.228320801 118% => OK
Words per sentence: 26.3076923077 21.698381199 121% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.69230769231 7.06452816374 66% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 4.19205298013 48% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 8.0 4.33554083885 185% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 1.0 4.45695364238 22% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 4.0 4.27373068433 94% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.442554406808 0.272083759551 163% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.167416995703 0.0996497079465 168% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0778641051186 0.0662205650399 118% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.264353327488 0.162205337803 163% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0851687813981 0.0443174109184 192% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 15.0 13.3589403974 112% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 53.55 53.8541721854 99% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 12.3 11.0289183223 112% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.67 12.2367328918 95% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.7 8.42419426049 91% => OK
difficult_words: 60.0 63.6247240618 94% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 13.5 10.7273730684 126% => OK
gunning_fog: 12.4 10.498013245 118% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 11.2008830022 107% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 73.3333333333 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 22.0 Out of 30
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