Like many creatures, humpback whales migrate long distances for feeding and mating purposes. How animals manage to migrate long distances is often puzzling. In the case of humpback whales, we may have found the answer: they may be navigating by the stars, much as early human sailors did. What we know about humpback whales makes this a distinct possibility.
Both of the reading passage and lecture discuses humpbacks, a kind of whales that migrate long-distance for feeding and mating purpose. The article states that point the humpbacks, probably be navigating by the stars for finding their ways and mentions three reasons for this idea. However, the professor disagrees with this idea because of his reasons.
First, the passage claims that the whales are really intelligent animals they have complex brains, so they can use this method. In contrast, the professor states that it does not relationship between the whales' brain and this ability. Other animals such as ducks also have this ability. Ducks are not intelligent animals but they use start to navigate by so these two are not related to each other this is behavior they were just born with.
Second, the article mentions that the humpbacks whale moves in straight lines but because they swim in the open ocean, they cannot rely on land features so they might rely on stars. However, the professor refutes this point by saying that the whales use the earth's magnetic field, they have a kind of substance called biomagnetic. These materials in their body make them sensitive to the earths' magnetic field so it helps them navigate in straight lines.
Finally, the reading passage states that the humpback whales have abnormal behavior known as spy-hopping. The whales looking at the stars they are providing them with information to navigate. The professor disagrees with this idea and claims that this behavior is really rare and some animals just use it such as some sharks, but they don't migrate or look at stars. When the sharks want to hunt their prey they use this behavior on the day when no stars can be seen.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 4, column 336, Rule ID: EN_CONTRACTION_SPELLING
Message: Possible spelling mistake found
Suggestion: don't
...st use it such as some sharks, but they dont migrate or look at stars. When the shar...
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Line 4, column 367, Rule ID: SENTENCE_FRAGMENT[1]
Message: “When” at the beginning of a sentence requires a 2nd clause. Maybe a comma, question or exclamation mark is missing, or the sentence is incomplete and should be joined with the following sentence.
...but they dont migrate or look at stars. When the sharks want to hunt their prey they...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, finally, first, however, look, really, second, so, in contrast, kind of, such as
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 9.0 10.4613686534 86% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 4.0 5.04856512141 79% => OK
Conjunction : 10.0 7.30242825607 137% => OK
Relative clauses : 10.0 12.0772626932 83% => OK
Pronoun: 41.0 22.412803532 183% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 27.0 30.3222958057 89% => OK
Nominalization: 3.0 5.01324503311 60% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1434.0 1373.03311258 104% => OK
No of words: 291.0 270.72406181 107% => OK
Chars per words: 4.92783505155 5.08290768461 97% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.13022058845 4.04702891845 102% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.34931441753 2.5805825403 91% => OK
Unique words: 141.0 145.348785872 97% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.484536082474 0.540411800872 90% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 429.3 419.366225166 102% => 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: 10.0 8.23620309051 121% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 1.25165562914 80% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 1.51434878587 66% => OK
Preposition: 1.0 2.5761589404 39% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 14.0 13.0662251656 107% => OK
Sentence length: 20.0 21.2450331126 94% => OK
Sentence length SD: 36.3329978765 49.2860985944 74% => OK
Chars per sentence: 102.428571429 110.228320801 93% => OK
Words per sentence: 20.7857142857 21.698381199 96% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.5 7.06452816374 92% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 4.19205298013 48% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 5.0 4.33554083885 115% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 4.0 4.45695364238 90% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 5.0 4.27373068433 117% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.224480721357 0.272083759551 83% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0861510301749 0.0996497079465 86% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0618460129927 0.0662205650399 93% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.144400170418 0.162205337803 89% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0359995522461 0.0443174109184 81% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.2 13.3589403974 91% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 59.64 53.8541721854 111% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.9 11.0289183223 90% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.31 12.2367328918 92% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.67 8.42419426049 91% => OK
difficult_words: 56.0 63.6247240618 88% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.0 10.7273730684 75% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.0 10.498013245 95% => OK
text_standard: 10.0 11.2008830022 89% => 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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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.