Anting behavior in birds
The reading put the forth idea of possible benefits of a particular behavior seen in some bird species called `anting` and provides three reasons for support. The lecturer, however, refutes each of the points made by the reading, and thinks that this is unclear that how the birds get advantage of this behavior and finds the reasons mentioned unconvincing.
First, the reading states that because anting is seen during the summer, they lose their feathers in that season, so they do anting for avoiding skin irritation. The lecturer opposes with the point made by the author by explaining that they may be related to one onother, but the reason birds do anting in summer is the ants are more active in summer, so birds can find them more easily than other times of the year. He thinks that this losing feathers and anting may be just a coincidence.
Moreover, the reading states that this behavior maybe a special kind of chemical defence against parasites like mites and ticks. On contrary, the lecturer finds this notion doubtful due to the fact that this maybe true that the release of formic acid may kill harmful parasites, but this behavior is seen only in some particular species of birds, not all kind of them. He claims that some special kinds engage in anting.
Third, the reading states that ants are a source of food for birds, which taste bitter due to formic acid, and birds do anting to remove bitter taste of ants, and then eat them. The professor refutes this notion by saying that birds pick up other stuffs like cigarets and rub them on their feather. He believes that rubing stuff, and also ants are not related to eating that thaings
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| 2019-12-17 | Feriackson | 85 | view |
| 2019-02-15 | Steven Huang | 65 | view |
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, first, however, may, moreover, so, then, third, kind of
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 : 11.0 7.30242825607 151% => OK
Relative clauses : 15.0 12.0772626932 124% => OK
Pronoun: 34.0 22.412803532 152% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 34.0 30.3222958057 112% => 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: 1382.0 1373.03311258 101% => OK
No of words: 290.0 270.72406181 107% => OK
Chars per words: 4.76551724138 5.08290768461 94% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.12666770723 4.04702891845 102% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.32420188186 2.5805825403 90% => OK
Unique words: 149.0 145.348785872 103% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.513793103448 0.540411800872 95% => OK
syllable_count: 412.2 419.366225166 98% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.4 1.55342163355 90% => 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: 7.0 1.51434878587 462% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 1.0 2.5761589404 39% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 11.0 13.0662251656 84% => 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 21.2450331126 122% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively long.
Sentence length SD: 63.1143524692 49.2860985944 128% => OK
Chars per sentence: 125.636363636 110.228320801 114% => OK
Words per sentence: 26.3636363636 21.698381199 122% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.0 7.06452816374 85% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 4.19205298013 0% => 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: 2.0 4.27373068433 47% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.345990958384 0.272083759551 127% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.119653313235 0.0996497079465 120% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0637983512656 0.0662205650399 96% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.19154361159 0.162205337803 118% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0695978465824 0.0443174109184 157% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.2 13.3589403974 106% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 62.01 53.8541721854 115% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.1 11.0289183223 101% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 10.68 12.2367328918 87% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.03 8.42419426049 95% => OK
difficult_words: 57.0 63.6247240618 90% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 13.5 10.7273730684 126% => OK
gunning_fog: 12.4 10.498013245 118% => OK
text_standard: 14.0 11.2008830022 125% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 85.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 25.5 Out of 30
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