Using the example of the pronghorn and lion, explain the concept of a relict behavior.

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Using the example of the pronghorn and lion, explain the concept of a relict behavior.

In general, animals act i ways that help them to survive within their specific habits. However, sometimes an animal species may display a behavior that no longer serves a clear purpose. The original purpose for the behavior may have disappeared long ago, even thousands of years before. These behavior, known as relict behaviors, were useful to the animal when the species' habitat was different; but now, because of the changed condition, the behavior no longer serves its original purpose. left over from the earlier time, the behavior remains as a relict, or remnant, long after the environment circumstance that influenced its evolution has vanished.

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Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 579.0 592.248995984 98% => OK
No of words: 161.0 155.574297189 103% => OK
Chars per words: 3.59627329193 3.80514564318 95% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.56210296601 3.525876923 101% => OK
Word Length SD: 1.59727594969 1.79077849142 89% => OK
Unique words: 106.0 93.7148594378 113% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.658385093168 0.604071249207 109% => OK
Syllable count: 180.9 185.844578313 97% => OK
Avg_syllables_per_word: 1.1 1.19417670683 92% => OK

Performance on coherence:
Topic speech coherence ratio: 0.0 0.0650381309087 0% => It may have issues on recording quality or the content is not so closely related to content.

Acoustic performance on paragraphs:
How many acoustic paragraphs: 1.0 4.35341365462 23% => Need more acoustic paragraphs.
Average paragraph length: 161.0 68.503853103 235% => The average paragraph length is high.
STD paragraph length: 0.0 21.3332995233 0% => OK
Average paragraph duration: 53.33 25.9943957902 205% => Need to control the rhythm of the speech
STD paragraph duration: 0.0 7.84667146824 0% => The duration of acoustic paragraphs keeps same.

Acoustic performance on sentences:
How many acoustic sentences: 26.0 42.0642570281 62% => OK
Average acoustic sentence length: 6.19230769231 4.02192344571 154% => OK
STD acoustic sentence length: 5.32786023414 3.1217529195 171% => OK
Average acoustic sentences duration: 1.96230769231 1.45093177766 135% => OK
STD acoustic sentences duration: 1.48420221433 0.99851816184 149% => OK

Acoustic performance on acoustic silence:(An acoustic silence means a little pause between two or more words)
How many acoustic silence: 26.0 39.0421686747 67% => OK
Total acoustic silence duration: 3.12 7.12997991968 44% => OK
Average acoustic silence duration: 0.12 0.185688545393 65% => Maybe the speech rate is too fast.
STD acoustic silence duration: 0.153773059559 0.155154303396 99% => OK

Acoustic performance on acoustic words:
Total word duration: 44.83 47.1480722892 95% => OK
Average word duration: 0.278447204969 0.305395592593 91% => OK
STD word duration: 0.146026284566 0.189427763521 77% => OK

Disfluencies: like hesitations, or 'ehn' or taking a long time to pronounce a word:
How many disfluencies: 4.0 7.94979919679 50% => OK
Total_disfluencies_duration: 2.95 6.2937751004 47% => OK
Total acoustic noise duration: 3.42 3.39508032129 101% => OK

Acoustic rates:
Total speech duration: 53.33 59.7592369478 89% => Talk more. Do not save time. People can talk 4-5 words in one second.
Compare to expected duration: 0.888833333333 0.995987282463 89% => Some seconds left. Need to talk more.
Rate of silence: 0.487530470654 0.656000678711 74% => OK
Rate of speech: 3.01893868367 2.60215298798 116% => OK
Rate of speech by unique words: 1.98762422651 1.56821927147 127% => OK
Rate of word duration by unique words: 2.36448806603 1.99336655568 119% => OK
Average articulation rates: 0.273456335404 0.317803793328 86% => OK

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Rates: 90.0 out of 100
Scores by speech e-grader: 27.0 Out of 30
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Note: the speech e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas.