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.
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The article demonstrates several beliefs about surprising elephant behaviors.However, in the lecture, the professor believes there is misunderstanding in these behaviors.
when elephants grow old, their teeth are also worn out. Compared with younger elephants, the elder prefer to eat softer vegetation which is often found near water. therefore, the elder may move near bodies of water to eat the soft vegetation until they die. In this case, the idea that elephants seem aware of their dying soon and going off alone is challenged.
In addition, elephants' ability to draw is taught by trainers. Since elephants' ears are very sensitive, trainers stroke their ears when they are teaching elephants to hold a paintbrush and paint recognizable things such as flowers or other elephants, in order to connect the act of stroking ears with painting. The lines painted by elephants are the result of the repeating procedure of training, which is contrast to the belief that elephants have artistic ability.
Finally, actually elephants are not afraid of mice because of mice themselves.It's only because in the wild they're not familiar with these little mammals and they keep away from mice out of a natural instinct. Once they have got to know mice better, elephants don't mind them at all. For example, the elephants in the zoo are not afraid of mice, because they realize mice have no threat to them. therefore, elephants don't really have a fear of mice.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
actually, also, finally, however, may, really, so, therefore, for example, in addition, such as
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 11.0 10.4613686534 105% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 1.0 5.04856512141 20% => OK
Conjunction : 4.0 7.30242825607 55% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 6.0 12.0772626932 50% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 17.0 22.412803532 76% => OK
Preposition: 39.0 30.3222958057 129% => 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: 1221.0 1373.03311258 89% => OK
No of words: 238.0 270.72406181 88% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.13025210084 5.08290768461 101% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.92775363542 4.04702891845 97% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.77252667678 2.5805825403 107% => OK
Unique words: 145.0 145.348785872 100% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.609243697479 0.540411800872 113% => OK
syllable_count: 378.0 419.366225166 90% => 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: 7.0 8.23620309051 85% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 1.25165562914 240% => Less adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 0.0 1.51434878587 0% => OK
Preposition: 5.0 2.5761589404 194% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 12.0 13.0662251656 92% => OK
Sentence length: 19.0 21.2450331126 89% => OK
Sentence length SD: 60.113030109 49.2860985944 122% => OK
Chars per sentence: 101.75 110.228320801 92% => OK
Words per sentence: 19.8333333333 21.698381199 91% => OK
Discourse Markers: 7.91666666667 7.06452816374 112% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 8.0 4.19205298013 191% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 5.0 4.33554083885 115% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 5.0 4.45695364238 112% => 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: 0.156936550211 0.272083759551 58% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0674272260424 0.0996497079465 68% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0386412016873 0.0662205650399 58% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0864031406656 0.162205337803 53% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0370497462983 0.0443174109184 84% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.6 13.3589403974 94% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 52.19 53.8541721854 97% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.7 11.0289183223 97% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.47 12.2367328918 102% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.03 8.42419426049 95% => OK
difficult_words: 52.0 63.6247240618 82% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 7.0 10.7273730684 65% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.6 10.498013245 91% => OK
text_standard: 13.0 11.2008830022 116% => 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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