Humans have long been fascinated by elephants, the largest land animal in the modern world. Social animals that live in herds, elephants are native to both Africa and Asia. Their large ears, long trunk, and long life span have made elephants one of the most captivating creatures on Earth. Our long-standing interest in elephants has led to several beliefs about surprising elephant behaviors.
Elephants Are Aware of Approaching Death
One of the popular beliefs is that when elephants become old and weak, they know that they are nearing the end of their lives. They demonstrate this by breaking away from their herds and going off alone to certain locations often found near bodies of water - so called "elephant graveyards" - to die alone. The idea that old elephants seem aware that they will die soon is supported by the discovery of many sites containing bones exclusively of elderly elephants.
Representing Objects through Art
Additionally, elephants seem to have artistic ability. Elephants can be taught to hold a paintbrush in their trunk and use it to paint on a canvas. Some elephants have been known to paint drawings that represent recognizable things: flowers, other elephants, even themselves. This talent makes elephants the only animal other than humans to produce art representing the world around them.
Fear of Mice
Finally, it has long been believed that elephants have a fear of mice. In 77 C.E., the Roman philosopher and scientist Pliny the Elder wrote that elephants are more afraid of mice, small mammals that can do elephants no harm, than of the much more dangerous animals with which elephants normally share an environment, such as lions or tigers. In a recent scientific experiment in which a herd of elephants was confronted with several mice, the elephants backed away from the mice and left the area to avoid them.
The passage and lecture is both discuss about elephants, which is the most enormous animal in the world. While the reading states that they have a several surprising behaviors, the lecturer refutes this by saying that this is the biggest misunderstanding that they have impressive behaviors.
First of all, the reading claims that when elephants realize that their life is coming to an end they always going to the water. Therefore, the herds are found near the water and it is known as the "elephant graveyards". The lecture counters this point by stating that as they getting older their teeth will face the difficulty with swallowing. Thus, they keep going to the water, which has a plenty of softy vegetation.
In addition, the reading makes the argument that elephants have an artistic sense. The lecture refutes this claim by pointing out that the elephant's ear is a sensitive organ. Elephants are able to remember certain patterns as touching their ears. Therefore, the animal trainers are consuming their ears as a tool to draw a pictures. Also, lecturer thinks that it does not makes sense that when elephants just drawing a line we can't see them as flowers or the artistic drawing.
Finally, the reading passage argues that elephants have a fear from mice. However, the lecturer refutes this point by saying that elephants don't have a trauma from mice' but the mice is the unfamiliar animals to the elephants. The lecturer then provides with an example of elephants which is live in the zoo. She points out that the zoo elephants has already accomodated with the mice. Therefore, she says that it just a natural habitat of animals that react fearfully from unfamiliar animals.
All in all, the reading and listening is both about an elephant' behavior.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 167, Rule ID: A_PLURAL[2]
Message: Don't use indefinite articles with plural words. Did you mean 'behavior'?
Suggestion: behavior
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Line 3, column 140, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[1]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'elephants'' or 'elephant's'?
Suggestion: elephants'; elephant's
...tes this claim by pointing out that the elephants ear is a sensitive organ. Elephants are...
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Line 3, column 322, Rule ID: A_PLURAL[1]
Message: Don't use indefinite articles with plural words. Did you mean 'a picture' or simply 'pictures'?
Suggestion: a picture; pictures
... consuming their ears as a tool to draw a pictures. Also, lecturer thinks that it does not...
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Line 3, column 373, Rule ID: DOES_X_HAS[1]
Message: Did you mean 'make'? As 'do' is already inflected, the verb cannot also be inflected.
Suggestion: make
... Also, lecturer thinks that it does not makes sense that when elephants just drawing ...
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Line 3, column 373, Rule ID: DID_BASEFORM[3]
Message: The verb 'does' requires base form of the verb: 'make'
Suggestion: make
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Line 3, column 428, Rule ID: CANT[1]
Message: Did you mean 'can't' or 'cannot'?
Suggestion: can't; cannot
...t when elephants just drawing a line we cant see them as flowers or the artistic dra...
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Line 4, column 141, Rule ID: EN_CONTRACTION_SPELLING
Message: Possible spelling mistake found
Suggestion: don't
...tes this point by saying that elephants dont have a trauma from mice but the mice is...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, finally, first, however, if, so, then, therefore, thus, while, as to, in addition, first of all
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 12.0 10.4613686534 115% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 1.0 5.04856512141 20% => OK
Conjunction : 5.0 7.30242825607 68% => OK
Relative clauses : 20.0 12.0772626932 166% => OK
Pronoun: 36.0 22.412803532 161% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 29.0 30.3222958057 96% => 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: 1480.0 1373.03311258 108% => OK
No of words: 297.0 270.72406181 110% => OK
Chars per words: 4.98316498316 5.08290768461 98% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.15134772569 4.04702891845 103% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.65543241182 2.5805825403 103% => OK
Unique words: 150.0 145.348785872 103% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.505050505051 0.540411800872 93% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 450.0 419.366225166 107% => 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: 12.0 8.23620309051 146% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 1.25165562914 80% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.51434878587 0% => OK
Preposition: 1.0 2.5761589404 39% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 17.0 13.0662251656 130% => OK
Sentence length: 17.0 21.2450331126 80% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 32.1475835488 49.2860985944 65% => OK
Chars per sentence: 87.0588235294 110.228320801 79% => OK
Words per sentence: 17.4705882353 21.698381199 81% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.23529411765 7.06452816374 88% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.09492273731 122% => OK
Language errors: 7.0 4.19205298013 167% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 3.0 4.33554083885 69% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 4.0 4.45695364238 90% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 10.0 4.27373068433 234% => Less facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.200248964621 0.272083759551 74% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0733419288382 0.0996497079465 74% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0389496615119 0.0662205650399 59% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.113086995568 0.162205337803 70% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0366110398351 0.0443174109184 83% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 10.8 13.3589403974 81% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 62.68 53.8541721854 116% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 8.7 11.0289183223 79% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.31 12.2367328918 92% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.72 8.42419426049 92% => OK
difficult_words: 61.0 63.6247240618 96% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 10.5 10.7273730684 98% => OK
gunning_fog: 8.8 10.498013245 84% => OK
text_standard: 11.0 11.2008830022 98% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 83.3333333333 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 25.0 Out of 30
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