Elephants are fascinating but the beliefs you just read about are based on misunderstandings of elephant behavior.
First, we should not assume that old elephants are aware that they will die soon just because they break away from their herds. There is a very practical reason why old elephants leave their herds. You see, when elephants get old enough, their teeth become more down and they have difficulty chewing. So elderly elephants wander away from their herds to look for soft vegetation that's easier to eat. Soft vegetation is usually found near water. That's why many old elephants graze near water and eventually die there, an area we've come to call “elephant graveyards”.
Second, the issue of whether elephants have artistic ability. If you want elephants trained to paint, you'll notice that human trainers stroking the elephants' ears whenever the elephant moves the paintbrush. Elephant ears are very sensitive and touching them in certain ways can be used to train the elephants to do tricks. The trainer teaches the elephant to remember certain patterns of paintbrush strokes and then encourages the elephant to repeat the brushstrokes by touching its ears. So an elephant using a paintbrush is just painting lines it's been trained to paint. It doesn't necessarily know that the lines are supposed to represent flowers or animals.
Third, Pliny the Elder and others are misinterpreting the reaction of elephants to mice. Elephants that react fearfully to mice aren't reacting to the mice themselves but to the fact that mice are unfamiliar to them. Being cautious about unfamiliar animals is a natural instinct. But elephants that live in environments where mice are common, like elephants in zoos don't react with fear to the mice. Clearly, once elephants become familiar with mice and realize that they don't pose a threat, they don't mind them.
According to the reading passage, in the long run elephants, the largest land animal with special shape of ears and long trunks which are native to Africa and Asia, live in herd, have been appealing by humans. There have been some beliefs about their interesting behaviors. However, the professor finds these beliefs misunderstanding and brings some ideas to refute them all.
First, some have assumed that the elderly elephants are aware of their death and then they break away their herds and go off alone to certain locations near the water and rivers so-called" elephant graveyards". On the contrary, the professor asserts that when elephants get older enough, consequently they have got some problem with their teeth and chewing will be difficult for them. Finally, they, to find the softer plants as a food resource, go near the rivers and graze there and eventually will die there.
Moreover, it has been suggested that alphabets have got the drawing abilities and by holding a paintbrush they are able to paint some special represents like flowers or themselves on canvas. In contrast, the speaker underlies that their ears are sensitive to stroke and when their human trainers are stroking their ears, they can learn to paint some lines which are not necessarily as a recognizable painting of flowers.
Finally, the Roman philosopher and scientists have written that elephants are more afraid of mice, while with living in the normal environments and nature, they are subjected to animals like lions and tigers, which are more jeopardized. Conversely, the professor dismisses the issue due to the fact that this behavior has been misinterpreted because elephants are not familiar with mice and a fearful behavior is intrinsic reaction. But in the zoo, the familiarity with mice will not be led to a fearful behavior by elephants, they do not realize mice as a threat.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, consequently, conversely, finally, first, however, if, moreover, so, then, while, as to, in contrast, on the contrary
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 17.0 10.4613686534 163% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 4.0 5.04856512141 79% => OK
Conjunction : 17.0 7.30242825607 233% => Less conjunction wanted
Relative clauses : 11.0 12.0772626932 91% => OK
Pronoun: 25.0 22.412803532 112% => OK
Preposition: 36.0 30.3222958057 119% => OK
Nominalization: 1.0 5.01324503311 20% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1587.0 1373.03311258 116% => OK
No of words: 309.0 270.72406181 114% => OK
Chars per words: 5.1359223301 5.08290768461 101% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.1926597562 4.04702891845 104% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.77242978652 2.5805825403 107% => OK
Unique words: 174.0 145.348785872 120% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.563106796117 0.540411800872 104% => OK
syllable_count: 486.0 419.366225166 116% => 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: 7.0 8.23620309051 85% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 1.25165562914 80% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 1.51434878587 66% => 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: 28.0 21.2450331126 132% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively long.
Sentence length SD: 54.4043629753 49.2860985944 110% => OK
Chars per sentence: 144.272727273 110.228320801 131% => OK
Words per sentence: 28.0909090909 21.698381199 129% => OK
Discourse Markers: 11.0909090909 7.06452816374 157% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 4.19205298013 48% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 4.0 4.33554083885 92% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 6.0 4.45695364238 135% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 1.0 4.27373068433 23% => More facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.264892332448 0.272083759551 97% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0974544966702 0.0996497079465 98% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.064149397009 0.0662205650399 97% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.144751401587 0.162205337803 89% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0815083659482 0.0443174109184 184% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 16.8 13.3589403974 126% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 43.06 53.8541721854 80% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 5.55761589404 158% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 14.2 11.0289183223 129% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.83 12.2367328918 105% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.96 8.42419426049 106% => OK
difficult_words: 77.0 63.6247240618 121% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.0 10.7273730684 103% => OK
gunning_fog: 13.2 10.498013245 126% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 11.2008830022 80% => 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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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.