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.
Overall, the passage and the lecture speak about elephants. The passage demonstrates three fascinated behaviors of the elephants, whereas the lecture cast doubt on them.
To begin with, as the lecture stated, elephants have the ability to know that they are nearing the end of their lives, and the passage concluded this because old elephants go off the herd and stick to a body of water until its death, in exact contrast to this, the lecture justified such behavior that elephant getting weaker teeth as much as they get bigger, for this reason, elephants prefer to eat soft plants in older ages.
Secondly, according to the passage, Elephants have a sense of art and good painters, but the lecture has a different opinion that the trainers play a trick by touch the sensitive ears of the elephant and eyes to make him moving the painting brush properly.
Finally, the passage said that elephants have a fears of mice, and to support this notion, the passage mentioned Romain philosophers who were believed in that and another experiment led the elephants to backed away when they saw a mice approaching them, the lecture had explained this experiment in a wholly different way that elephants instinctively afraid of anything new.
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 4, column 47, Rule ID: A_PLURAL[1]
Message: Don't use indefinite articles with plural words. Did you mean 'a fear' or simply 'fears'?
Suggestion: a fear; fears
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Line 4, column 230, Rule ID: A_PLURAL[1]
Message: Don't use indefinite articles with plural words. Did you mean 'a mouse' or simply 'mice'?
Suggestion: a mouse; mice
... elephants to backed away when they saw a mice approaching them, the lecture had expla...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, finally, if, second, secondly, so, whereas, to begin with
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 2.0 10.4613686534 19% => More to be verbs wanted.
Auxiliary verbs: 0.0 5.04856512141 0% => OK
Conjunction : 8.0 7.30242825607 110% => OK
Relative clauses : 8.0 12.0772626932 66% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 19.0 22.412803532 85% => OK
Preposition: 26.0 30.3222958057 86% => OK
Nominalization: 2.0 5.01324503311 40% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1031.0 1373.03311258 75% => OK
No of words: 207.0 270.72406181 76% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 4.9806763285 5.08290768461 98% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.79308509922 4.04702891845 94% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.58881312017 2.5805825403 100% => OK
Unique words: 126.0 145.348785872 87% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.608695652174 0.540411800872 113% => OK
syllable_count: 318.6 419.366225166 76% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.55342163355 97% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 0.0 3.25607064018 0% => OK
Article: 6.0 8.23620309051 73% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 1.25165562914 80% => OK
Conjunction: 3.0 1.51434878587 198% => OK
Preposition: 3.0 2.5761589404 116% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 5.0 13.0662251656 38% => 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: 41.0 21.2450331126 193% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively long.
Sentence length SD: 143.511671999 49.2860985944 291% => The lengths of sentences changed so frequently.
Chars per sentence: 206.2 110.228320801 187% => OK
Words per sentence: 41.4 21.698381199 191% => OK
Discourse Markers: 12.4 7.06452816374 176% => 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: 2.0 4.27373068433 47% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.180235950599 0.272083759551 66% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0859782267295 0.0996497079465 86% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0624318961332 0.0662205650399 94% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.105714945807 0.162205337803 65% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0535832720251 0.0443174109184 121% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 22.7 13.3589403974 170% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 38.32 53.8541721854 71% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 5.55761589404 158% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 18.1 11.0289183223 164% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.49 12.2367328918 102% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.18 8.42419426049 109% => OK
difficult_words: 46.0 63.6247240618 72% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 18.0 10.7273730684 168% => OK
gunning_fog: 18.4 10.498013245 175% => OK
text_standard: 18.0 11.2008830022 161% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 78.3333333333 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 23.5 Out of 30
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