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 lecturer discusses three reasons why he thinks that the so called surprising behavior of elephant is misinterpreted .
First of all, elderly elephants has weak teeth and therefore they go in search of soft grass or food, which is found near river or any water stream. There are more chances for these elderly elephants to die near those water stream. This directly refutes the reading passage which misunderstand this behavior of elderly elephants as an instinct to be aware of death.
Secondly, lecturer questions the artistic ability of elephants. He claims that some elephant are trained such a manner that they can give pant strokes in respond to the reminder of its trainer. He also says that elephants are not aware of what they are drawing instead they just do what they are trained for.Thus he does not believe that all elephants are artistic.
Thirdly, all elephants do not have the fear of mice. This phenomenon of fear is only seen in those elephants which are raised in unfamiliar environment. The elephants which are raised in zoo's behave normally to mice which means that familiarized elephants do not have any fear for the mice.Thus lecturer clearly contrast the belief that elephants have fear of mice.
All in all ,elephants neither move to river side as an instinct of death, nor they posses artistic ability, and they do have fear for mice are the three points lecturer trying to prove.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, first, second, secondly, so, therefore, third, thirdly, thus, first of all
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 13.0 10.4613686534 124% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 1.0 5.04856512141 20% => OK
Conjunction : 5.0 7.30242825607 68% => OK
Relative clauses : 12.0 12.0772626932 99% => OK
Pronoun: 25.0 22.412803532 112% => OK
Preposition: 26.0 30.3222958057 86% => 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: 1184.0 1373.03311258 86% => OK
No of words: 239.0 270.72406181 88% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 4.9539748954 5.08290768461 97% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.93187294222 4.04702891845 97% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.52585244137 2.5805825403 98% => OK
Unique words: 126.0 145.348785872 87% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.52719665272 0.540411800872 98% => OK
syllable_count: 364.5 419.366225166 87% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.55342163355 97% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 4.0 3.25607064018 123% => OK
Article: 2.0 8.23620309051 24% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 1.25165562914 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 2.0 1.51434878587 132% => OK
Preposition: 0.0 2.5761589404 0% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
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: 21.0 21.2450331126 99% => OK
Sentence length SD: 48.3810631624 49.2860985944 98% => OK
Chars per sentence: 107.636363636 110.228320801 98% => OK
Words per sentence: 21.7272727273 21.698381199 100% => OK
Discourse Markers: 7.27272727273 7.06452816374 103% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.09492273731 122% => OK
Language errors: 8.0 4.19205298013 191% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 4.0 4.33554083885 92% => 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: 0.128725870347 0.272083759551 47% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0593139811578 0.0996497079465 60% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0336580220545 0.0662205650399 51% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0722396285389 0.162205337803 45% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0323768030991 0.0443174109184 73% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.7 13.3589403974 95% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 58.62 53.8541721854 109% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.3 11.0289183223 93% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.43 12.2367328918 93% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.59 8.42419426049 90% => OK
difficult_words: 44.0 63.6247240618 69% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 8.0 10.7273730684 75% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.4 10.498013245 99% => OK
text_standard: 8.0 11.2008830022 71% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 75.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 22.5 Out of 30
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