Both the lecture and the listening attempt to give an explanation about how humpback whales are able to migrate for long distance for feeding and mating purposes. The lecturer thinks that the explanations given by the reading are not convincing as explained by the followings.
First, the reading suggests that the high degree of complexity of these mammals makes them able to use stars to navigate by, but the lecturer points out that this thesis is not convincing because in nature exist other medium-intelligent animals such as the birds that have the same ability to migrate and orientate similarly to humpback whales, therefore migration is more related with a born instinct than intelligence.
Second, the lecturer believes that there may be another explanation, he states that most likely humpback whales orientate themselves thanks to a particular organ, the magnetite, which makes these animals sensitive to the earth magnetic field, therefore they use it to orientate during long-distance migration. this, contrast the theory made in the reading that whales use stars for orientation.
Third, the lecturer says that spy-hopping is rare but it has been observed in sharks, which do not migrate and also, it has been observed in whales during the day, so this unusual behavior very likely has not the purpose to come to the surface and look at stars for orientation.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
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Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
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Suggestion: This
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, first, look, may, second, similarly, so, therefore, third, such as
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 8.0 10.4613686534 76% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 1.0 5.04856512141 20% => OK
Conjunction : 7.0 7.30242825607 96% => OK
Relative clauses : 10.0 12.0772626932 83% => OK
Pronoun: 19.0 22.412803532 85% => OK
Preposition: 26.0 30.3222958057 86% => OK
Nominalization: 9.0 5.01324503311 180% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1161.0 1373.03311258 85% => OK
No of words: 223.0 270.72406181 82% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.20627802691 5.08290768461 102% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.86434787811 4.04702891845 95% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.80998870423 2.5805825403 109% => OK
Unique words: 131.0 145.348785872 90% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.587443946188 0.540411800872 109% => OK
syllable_count: 366.3 419.366225166 87% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.55342163355 103% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 2.0 3.25607064018 61% => OK
Article: 5.0 8.23620309051 61% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 1.25165562914 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 1.0 1.51434878587 66% => OK
Preposition: 0.0 2.5761589404 0% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 6.0 13.0662251656 46% => 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: 37.0 21.2450331126 174% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively long.
Sentence length SD: 118.76225083 49.2860985944 241% => The lengths of sentences changed so frequently.
Chars per sentence: 193.5 110.228320801 176% => OK
Words per sentence: 37.1666666667 21.698381199 171% => OK
Discourse Markers: 12.8333333333 7.06452816374 182% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 4.19205298013 48% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 2.0 4.33554083885 46% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 1.0 4.45695364238 22% => More negative sentences wanted.
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: 0.427343109674 0.272083759551 157% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.195917173277 0.0996497079465 197% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0907278987239 0.0662205650399 137% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.239898260687 0.162205337803 148% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0404272930873 0.0443174109184 91% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 21.7 13.3589403974 162% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 33.92 53.8541721854 63% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 5.55761589404 158% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 17.7 11.0289183223 160% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.53 12.2367328918 111% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.44 8.42419426049 112% => OK
difficult_words: 56.0 63.6247240618 88% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 19.0 10.7273730684 177% => OK
gunning_fog: 16.8 10.498013245 160% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 11.2008830022 80% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 81.6666666667 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 24.5 Out of 30
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