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 reading and lecture are both about the surprising charactersticks possessed by the elephant. The author of the reading feels that the peculiar features of the elephant made it more fascinating. However, the lecturer states that the surprising nature of human for the elephant was due to some misunderstanding, and challenges the each of the authors claim with specific reasons.
To begin with, the article argues that elephant were aware about their mortality, and left the herd. The article mentions that elephant move near the water bodies when they are senile. The professor refutes this point by saying that when elephants were old enough, their old teeth will become down, and unable to chew the food. Thus, why it creates them to eat the softer vegetation. He also states that this phase leads the elephant to live near water, where it grazes it food, and finally died there.
Secondly, the writer suggests that elephant has a certain kinds of creativity, and can make a paint with artistic creation. Additionally, he says that this quality makes the elephant a superficial character due to its expression characters. However, the professor says that these types of creativity were possible only due to some training and lessons provided by the humans to the elephants. She elaborates on this point by human or trainer encourages the elephant to draw a certain pattern, and it's repetition of this process shows their expressing characters.
Thirdly, the reading says that elephant are fear of minute types of organisms like mice rather than large type of animals like tiger, lion, etc. It also explains that elephants always try to avoid such types of incidents. On the contrary, the lecturer noted that elephant were initially unfamiliar to the small creatures like mice, and once it becomes familiar it will not reject it. Further, he explains that in a zoo, there were lot of mice, and it doesn't panic towards it.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 5, column 59, Rule ID: A_PLURAL[2]
Message: Don't use indefinite articles with plural words. Did you mean 'kind'?
Suggestion: kind
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Line 7, column 452, Rule ID: EN_CONTRACTION_SPELLING
Message: Possible spelling mistake found
Suggestion: doesn't
...n a zoo, there were lot of mice, and it doesnt panic towards it.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, finally, however, if, second, secondly, so, third, thirdly, thus, on the contrary, to begin with
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 9.0 10.4613686534 86% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 3.0 5.04856512141 59% => OK
Conjunction : 11.0 7.30242825607 151% => OK
Relative clauses : 16.0 12.0772626932 132% => OK
Pronoun: 40.0 22.412803532 178% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 41.0 30.3222958057 135% => 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: 1616.0 1373.03311258 118% => OK
No of words: 320.0 270.72406181 118% => OK
Chars per words: 5.05 5.08290768461 99% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.22948505376 4.04702891845 105% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.63032198599 2.5805825403 102% => OK
Unique words: 178.0 145.348785872 122% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.55625 0.540411800872 103% => OK
syllable_count: 500.4 419.366225166 119% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.55342163355 103% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 6.0 3.25607064018 184% => OK
Article: 10.0 8.23620309051 121% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 1.25165562914 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 8.0 1.51434878587 528% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 2.0 2.5761589404 78% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 16.0 13.0662251656 122% => OK
Sentence length: 20.0 21.2450331126 94% => OK
Sentence length SD: 35.2127462718 49.2860985944 71% => OK
Chars per sentence: 101.0 110.228320801 92% => OK
Words per sentence: 20.0 21.698381199 92% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.375 7.06452816374 90% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 4.19205298013 48% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 9.0 4.33554083885 208% => Less positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 4.0 4.45695364238 90% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 3.0 4.27373068433 70% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.145630980173 0.272083759551 54% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0482010702997 0.0996497079465 48% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0238111640071 0.0662205650399 36% => Sentences are similar to each other.
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0862170965661 0.162205337803 53% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.00514658058873 0.0443174109184 12% => Paragraphs are similar to each other. Some content may get duplicated or it is not exactly right on the topic.
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.4 13.3589403974 93% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 51.18 53.8541721854 95% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.1 11.0289183223 101% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.01 12.2367328918 98% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.48 8.42419426049 101% => OK
difficult_words: 78.0 63.6247240618 123% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.0 10.7273730684 75% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.0 10.498013245 95% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 11.2008830022 107% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 70.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 21.0 Out of 30
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