Zoos are sometimes seen as necessary but not poor alternatives to a natural environment. Discuss some of the arguments for and/or against keeping animals in zoos.
The necessity to place animals in captivity, away from their natural habitats for human entertainment has often times been considered as inhumane and cruel. On the other hand, where zoos may be subject to frequent criticism, they also have positive aspects that are frequently disregarded.
A major criticism of zoos is that they deprive animals of the ability to roam freely and fully attain the natural animal instincts critical to survival, such as hunting and scavenging for food. In so doing, zoos are accused of rendering animals entirely dependent on human care, which is sometimes detrimental to the animals' health and can lead to starvation. On the other hand, certain zoos only aim at rescuing animals that would otherwise not survive in the wild for a number of reasons such as the loss of a mother. These zoos provide them with a nurturing environment and re-introduce them into the wilderness once they have matured.
Another argument is the commercial aspect of zoos, whereby some animals are conditioned to perform certain activities under harsh treatment by their trainers. This alters the stability of the animals' psychological state and in some situations, renders them harmful. Several occurrences support this view, such as instances where otherwise docile animals have suddenly attacked a trainer or zoo visitor and have had to be shot or otherwise restrained. However, regardless of commercialisation, zoos have contributed to educating society about certain animals that would not naturally exist in close proximity to humans. The zeal to visit zoos to see such animals has led to children growing up to become animal activists, veterinarians and zoologists.
In conclusion, although some may call for the closure of zoos, many of the animals on the food chain would cease to exist without them as they would succumb to the law of natural selection or fall prey to hunters' insatiable need to kill for meat, hides and ivory.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 3, column 318, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[1]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'animals'' or 'animal's'?
Suggestion: animals'; animal's
..., which is sometimes detrimental to the animals health and can lead to starvation. On t...
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Line 5, column 593, Rule ID: CLOSE_SCRUTINY[1]
Message: Use simply 'proximity'.
Suggestion: proximity
...imals that would not naturally exist in close proximity to humans. The zeal to visit zoos to se...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, however, may, so, in conclusion, such as, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 9.0 13.1623246493 68% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 8.0 7.85571142285 102% => OK
Conjunction : 12.0 10.4138276553 115% => OK
Relative clauses : 7.0 7.30460921844 96% => OK
Pronoun: 17.0 24.0651302605 71% => OK
Preposition: 48.0 41.998997996 114% => OK
Nominalization: 7.0 8.3376753507 84% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1644.0 1615.20841683 102% => OK
No of words: 316.0 315.596192385 100% => OK
Chars per words: 5.20253164557 5.12529762239 102% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.21620550194 4.20363070211 100% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.83106012972 2.80592935109 101% => OK
Unique words: 183.0 176.041082164 104% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.579113924051 0.561755894193 103% => OK
syllable_count: 524.7 506.74238477 104% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.60771543086 106% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 3.0 5.43587174349 55% => OK
Interrogative: 1.0 0.384769539078 260% => OK
Article: 3.0 2.52805611222 119% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 2.10420841683 48% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 0.809619238477 0% => OK
Preposition: 5.0 4.76152304609 105% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 12.0 16.0721442886 75% => 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: 26.0 20.2975951904 128% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively long.
Sentence length SD: 39.4356015127 49.4020404114 80% => OK
Chars per sentence: 137.0 106.682146367 128% => OK
Words per sentence: 26.3333333333 20.7667163134 127% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.83333333333 7.06120827912 83% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.38176352705 91% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 5.01903807615 40% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 7.0 8.67935871743 81% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 4.0 3.9879759519 100% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 1.0 3.4128256513 29% => More facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.256861936037 0.244688304435 105% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0958394800389 0.084324248473 114% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.039241544321 0.0667982634062 59% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.152447170431 0.151304729494 101% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0387300169405 0.056905535591 68% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 16.2 13.0946893788 124% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 36.63 50.2224549098 73% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.44779559118 118% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 14.6 11.3001002004 129% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.18 12.4159519038 106% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.42 8.58950901804 110% => OK
difficult_words: 90.0 78.4519038076 115% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 15.0 9.78957915832 153% => OK
gunning_fog: 12.4 10.1190380762 123% => OK
text_standard: 15.0 10.7795591182 139% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 78.6516853933 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 7.0 Out of 9
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