Anting
It’s still pretty unclear how anting helps birds. None of the theories in the reading are very strong. The reason for the first theory is the timing. Birds engage in anting in the summer. And birds change their feathers in the summer too. And so it seems that one is related to the other. But maybe there is a different reason why birds engage in anting in the summer. You see, ants are outside more in the summer, and it is much easier for the birds to find them in the summer. Maybe the reason we see birds anting in the summer is that birds can find many more ants in the summer than any other time. Birds also changing their feathers in the summer could just be a coincidence.
Second is the theory that acid spray during anting protects the birds from parasites. Well if this was true, then birds that engage in anting must have fewer parasites than birds that don’t engage in anting. But research shows that this is not true. Birds that engage in anting do not seem to have fewer parasites.
Third, it seems doubtful that anting is a way for birds to make ants taste better. You see, birds will engage in anting with other tools too, and sometimes, the things that they put in their feathers are not even food. For example, birds can engage in anting using things like pieces of cigarettes, or pieces of soap, and they don’t eat any of these things later. So, it seems that putting ants on their feathers is not related to eating.
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Essay evaluations by e-grader
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, first, if, may, second, so, still, then, third, well, for example
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 14.0 10.4613686534 134% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 5.0 5.04856512141 99% => OK
Conjunction : 8.0 7.30242825607 110% => OK
Relative clauses : 10.0 12.0772626932 83% => OK
Pronoun: 28.0 22.412803532 125% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 32.0 30.3222958057 106% => 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: 1203.0 1373.03311258 88% => OK
No of words: 269.0 270.72406181 99% => OK
Chars per words: 4.47211895911 5.08290768461 88% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.0498419064 4.04702891845 100% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.02067094504 2.5805825403 78% => OK
Unique words: 127.0 145.348785872 87% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.472118959108 0.540411800872 87% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 354.6 419.366225166 85% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.3 1.55342163355 84% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 5.0 3.25607064018 154% => OK
Article: 2.0 8.23620309051 24% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 1.25165562914 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 8.0 1.51434878587 528% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 0.0 2.5761589404 0% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 18.0 13.0662251656 138% => OK
Sentence length: 14.0 21.2450331126 66% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 35.042040442 49.2860985944 71% => OK
Chars per sentence: 66.8333333333 110.228320801 61% => OK
Words per sentence: 14.9444444444 21.698381199 69% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.22222222222 7.06452816374 60% => More transition words/phrases wanted.
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 4.19205298013 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 11.0 4.33554083885 254% => Less positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 1.0 4.45695364238 22% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 7.0 4.27373068433 164% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.387084310723 0.272083759551 142% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.161121436398 0.0996497079465 162% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.139583036514 0.0662205650399 211% => The coherence between sentences is low.
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.228927119893 0.162205337803 141% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.138341810188 0.0443174109184 312% => More connections among paragraphs wanted.
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 7.1 13.3589403974 53% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 82.65 53.8541721854 153% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 5.2 11.0289183223 47% => Flesch kincaid grade is low.
coleman_liau_index: 8.05 12.2367328918 66% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 6.21 8.42419426049 74% => OK
difficult_words: 32.0 63.6247240618 50% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 4.5 10.7273730684 42% => Linsear_write_formula is low.
gunning_fog: 7.6 10.498013245 72% => OK
text_standard: 8.0 11.2008830022 71% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 60.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 18.0 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.
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, first, if, may, second, so, still, then, third, well, for example
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 14.0 10.4613686534 134% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 5.0 5.04856512141 99% => OK
Conjunction : 8.0 7.30242825607 110% => OK
Relative clauses : 10.0 12.0772626932 83% => OK
Pronoun: 28.0 22.412803532 125% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 32.0 30.3222958057 106% => 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: 1203.0 1373.03311258 88% => OK
No of words: 269.0 270.72406181 99% => OK
Chars per words: 4.47211895911 5.08290768461 88% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.0498419064 4.04702891845 100% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.02067094504 2.5805825403 78% => OK
Unique words: 127.0 145.348785872 87% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.472118959108 0.540411800872 87% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 354.6 419.366225166 85% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.3 1.55342163355 84% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 5.0 3.25607064018 154% => OK
Article: 2.0 8.23620309051 24% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 1.25165562914 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 8.0 1.51434878587 528% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 0.0 2.5761589404 0% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 18.0 13.0662251656 138% => OK
Sentence length: 14.0 21.2450331126 66% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 35.042040442 49.2860985944 71% => OK
Chars per sentence: 66.8333333333 110.228320801 61% => OK
Words per sentence: 14.9444444444 21.698381199 69% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.22222222222 7.06452816374 60% => More transition words/phrases wanted.
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 4.19205298013 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 11.0 4.33554083885 254% => Less positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 1.0 4.45695364238 22% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 7.0 4.27373068433 164% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.387084310723 0.272083759551 142% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.161121436398 0.0996497079465 162% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.139583036514 0.0662205650399 211% => The coherence between sentences is low.
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.228927119893 0.162205337803 141% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.138341810188 0.0443174109184 312% => More connections among paragraphs wanted.
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 7.1 13.3589403974 53% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 82.65 53.8541721854 153% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 5.2 11.0289183223 47% => Flesch kincaid grade is low.
coleman_liau_index: 8.05 12.2367328918 66% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 6.21 8.42419426049 74% => OK
difficult_words: 32.0 63.6247240618 50% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 4.5 10.7273730684 42% => Linsear_write_formula is low.
gunning_fog: 7.6 10.498013245 72% => OK
text_standard: 8.0 11.2008830022 71% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 60.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 18.0 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.