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.
Cause the elephant is fascinated by people, the writer supposes a serious method of elephants. However, those statements are all rejected by the lecturer.
The first statement of the elephant by the author states that the elephant is aware of approaching death and they will leave the herd to the lack alone. Nevertheless, this argument was betrayed by the lecturer and stated that because the old elephant is hard to eat that they must leave the herd to find other softer grass to eat which is usually near the water.
The writer also claims that the elephant has the artistic ability that the elephant can recognize things such as flowers and paint on the canvas. But the speaker still refutes this proposal and says since the elephant is easy to train and to memorize. People will make elephants remember all lines by touch their ears. Althogh the elephant can draw a flower, it just like many lines in the elephant's eye.
The author still not give up and indicates that the elephant is afraid of mice a lot. When the elephant is accompanied by mice, elephants will afraid and want to escape. This theory still cannot convince the lecturer and refute it. The speaker claims that the reason why the elephant looks afraid of the mice is that elephants have never seen mice before that they will be cautious. Once if elephants are familiar with the mice, they won't afraid of them. Just like the elephant in the zoo is familiar with the mice doesn't afraid of them.
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 4, column 515, Rule ID: EN_CONTRACTION_SPELLING
Message: Possible spelling mistake found
Suggestion: doesn't
...nt in the zoo is familiar with the mice doesnt afraid of them.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, first, however, if, look, nevertheless, so, still, such as
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 13.0 10.4613686534 124% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 8.0 5.04856512141 158% => OK
Conjunction : 9.0 7.30242825607 123% => OK
Relative clauses : 11.0 12.0772626932 91% => OK
Pronoun: 22.0 22.412803532 98% => OK
Preposition: 31.0 30.3222958057 102% => 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: 1209.0 1373.03311258 88% => OK
No of words: 258.0 270.72406181 95% => OK
Chars per words: 4.68604651163 5.08290768461 92% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.00778971557 4.04702891845 99% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.26676594974 2.5805825403 88% => OK
Unique words: 132.0 145.348785872 91% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.511627906977 0.540411800872 95% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 375.3 419.366225166 89% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.55342163355 97% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 5.0 3.25607064018 154% => OK
Article: 5.0 8.23620309051 61% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 1.25165562914 80% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 1.51434878587 66% => OK
Preposition: 0.0 2.5761589404 0% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 14.0 13.0662251656 107% => OK
Sentence length: 18.0 21.2450331126 85% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 42.4896746161 49.2860985944 86% => OK
Chars per sentence: 86.3571428571 110.228320801 78% => OK
Words per sentence: 18.4285714286 21.698381199 85% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.92857142857 7.06452816374 70% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 4.19205298013 24% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 6.0 4.33554083885 138% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 5.0 4.45695364238 112% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 3.0 4.27373068433 70% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.218085478158 0.272083759551 80% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0889784311402 0.0996497079465 89% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0461816148499 0.0662205650399 70% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.131432751519 0.162205337803 81% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0365705608539 0.0443174109184 83% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 9.9 13.3589403974 74% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 61.67 53.8541721854 115% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.1 11.0289183223 83% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 9.92 12.2367328918 81% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.28 8.42419426049 86% => OK
difficult_words: 45.0 63.6247240618 71% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 10.5 10.7273730684 98% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.2 10.498013245 88% => OK
text_standard: 10.0 11.2008830022 89% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 76.6666666667 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 23.0 Out of 30
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