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.
In the reading passage, the author concentrates on several beliefs about fascinating elephant behaviors. However, the lecturer casts doubt on these beliefs and respectively points out the problems with all the author's assertions.
Firstly, the author argues that elephants are cognizant of approaching their death since they go off alone to certain places after becoming old and weak. Nevertheless, the lecturer challenges this idea and states that when these animals become elderly, they tend to eat safer vegetables which can be found in particular locations near water. Thus, they decide to leave the herd and graze in such areas, known as elephant graveyards, and after a while, they will die naturally.
Secondly, the author suggests that elephants seem to have an innate artistic ability to paint drawings, like flowers. By contrast, the lecturer brings up the fact that these animals only repeat the way people teach them to move paintbrush on the canvas, and they recreate only those simple patterns which instructors have taught them.
Lastly, the author asserts that elephants have a strange fear of mice, which has been proved through some scientific experiments. Conversely, the lecturer refutes this claim too and clarifies that elephants' reaction to some animals like mice is the consequence of being unfamiliar with them. In the habitats where mice are common, like in zoos, elephants don't demonstrate such odd reactions when facing mice. They actually don't mind these small animals when they are accustomed to their presence.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
actually, conversely, first, firstly, however, if, lastly, nevertheless, second, secondly, so, thus, while, in particular
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 7.0 10.4613686534 67% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 2.0 5.04856512141 40% => OK
Conjunction : 7.0 7.30242825607 96% => OK
Relative clauses : 13.0 12.0772626932 108% => OK
Pronoun: 25.0 22.412803532 112% => OK
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: 1304.0 1373.03311258 95% => OK
No of words: 243.0 270.72406181 90% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.36625514403 5.08290768461 106% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.94822203886 4.04702891845 98% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.6010444246 2.5805825403 101% => OK
Unique words: 156.0 145.348785872 107% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.641975308642 0.540411800872 119% => OK
syllable_count: 390.6 419.366225166 93% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.55342163355 103% => 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: 2.0 1.51434878587 132% => OK
Preposition: 5.0 2.5761589404 194% => OK
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: 22.0 21.2450331126 104% => OK
Sentence length SD: 35.9354333757 49.2860985944 73% => OK
Chars per sentence: 118.545454545 110.228320801 108% => OK
Words per sentence: 22.0909090909 21.698381199 102% => OK
Discourse Markers: 11.0 7.06452816374 156% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 4.0 4.19205298013 95% => 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: 0.171689818131 0.272083759551 63% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0698906617619 0.0996497079465 70% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0342705767567 0.0662205650399 52% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.100393100387 0.162205337803 62% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0321597751561 0.0443174109184 73% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.9 13.3589403974 112% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 49.15 53.8541721854 91% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 5.55761589404 158% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.9 11.0289183223 108% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.87 12.2367328918 113% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.76 8.42419426049 104% => OK
difficult_words: 62.0 63.6247240618 97% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.0 10.7273730684 103% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.8 10.498013245 103% => OK
text_standard: 11.0 11.2008830022 98% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 90.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 27.0 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.