Some critics contend that keeping animals in zoos is inhumane and must be changed. They believe that zoos are unnatural and provide no real benefit to society besides providing entertainment at the expense of the animals involved. The truth is that zoos are essential to a modern culture that places value in animal life.
Animals are treated well in zoos. In fact, the most passionate animal lovers are usually the animal keepers found in zoos. They ensure that the animals maintain the same level of psychological “happiness” as their wild counterparts. They, along with the zoo itself, help animals live longer, feed better, and suffer from fewer diseases; These animals are allowed to exist without the fear of predation or famine because of zoos.
Additionally, zoos are no longer seen as or marketed as forms of entertainment, but as education. Zoos work to inform the public about exhibited animals, wildlife in general, and the important need to preserve our Earth. The emphasis on conservation and education is an important one. Visitors are taught about issues and animals that they would never have direct experience with otherwise. Thus, zoos provide a crucial tool to direct the public towards more humane ways to look at the world.
Finally, zoos serve the vital function of helping to protect and preserve endangered species. For example, the Golden Lion Tamarins are an endangered species native to Brazil. In the early part of the 1970s, only around 200 of these small monkeys existed. It was only through the coordinated actions of several zoos and the Brazilian government that these animals were saved from extinction. Today, as a result of these efforts, you can find about 1,500 living in the wild.
Summarize the points made in the lecture, being sure to explain how they cast doubt on the points made in the reading passage. You have 20 minutes to type your response.
Some critics believe that the zoos are inhuman to animals but the article states that zoos are essential and provides value to animal life. The author provides three reasons for the same. Whereas the lecturer totally refutes the idea pitched by the author and says zoos in no way do any benefit to the animals. He has provided examples to counter every reason given by the author.
First, the author believes that the animals are treated very well inside the zoos. The lecturer refuses the author opinion saying the animals are not treated pretty in the zoo. He brings about the recent incident in one of the zoo where rat poison leads to the death of two red pandas. Although, the life of these pandas could have been saved by the safety manger but they were not found anywhere near the crime scene. This is just one of many incidents which shows the lack of care given to animals in the zoo.
Second, the author states that the zoos are marked as a source of education rather than for entertainment. The professor refutes the author’s statement as most of the animals in the zoo are kept to attract more visitor instead of providing information about different types of animals. This encourages the wrong idea of using animals for own purpose. If some of the different animals are shown, they are put in very artificial and misleading way. Thus, it doesn’t adds up as a the source of education.
Third, the author states that zoos are a brilliant way to provide shelter to protect endangered species. The lecturer refutes the idea saying that the example mentioned by the author is the situation of one out of 100 zoos. Overall success rate of inhabiting endangered species is poor. In most of the zoos, these species when kept inside interbreed within themselves leading to increase in birth defects. Thus, it has proved to be of no advantage for the endangered species.
Grammar and spelling errors:
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Message: Did you mean 'safety manager'?
Suggestion: safety manager
...ese pandas could have been saved by the safety manger but they were not found anywhere near t...
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Message: Simply use 'some'.
Suggestion: some
...ea of using animals for own purpose. If some of the different animals are shown, they are p...
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Line 5, column 486, Rule ID: DT_DT[1]
Message: Maybe you need to remove one determiner so that only 'a' or 'the' is left.
Suggestion: a; the
...g way. Thus, it doesn't adds up as a the source of education. Third, the auth...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, first, if, second, so, third, thus, well, whereas
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 15.0 10.4613686534 143% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 1.0 5.04856512141 20% => OK
Conjunction : 5.0 7.30242825607 68% => OK
Relative clauses : 9.0 12.0772626932 75% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 17.0 22.412803532 76% => OK
Preposition: 47.0 30.3222958057 155% => OK
Nominalization: 6.0 5.01324503311 120% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1565.0 1373.03311258 114% => OK
No of words: 328.0 270.72406181 121% => OK
Chars per words: 4.77134146341 5.08290768461 94% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.25567506705 4.04702891845 105% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.41686388489 2.5805825403 94% => OK
Unique words: 171.0 145.348785872 118% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.521341463415 0.540411800872 96% => OK
syllable_count: 501.3 419.366225166 120% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.55342163355 97% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 8.0 3.25607064018 246% => Less pronouns wanted as sentence beginning.
Article: 8.0 8.23620309051 97% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 1.25165562914 80% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.51434878587 0% => OK
Preposition: 1.0 2.5761589404 39% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 19.0 13.0662251656 145% => OK
Sentence length: 17.0 21.2450331126 80% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 32.6222397501 49.2860985944 66% => OK
Chars per sentence: 82.3684210526 110.228320801 75% => OK
Words per sentence: 17.2631578947 21.698381199 80% => OK
Discourse Markers: 2.84210526316 7.06452816374 40% => More transition words/phrases wanted.
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 3.0 4.19205298013 72% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 8.0 4.33554083885 185% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 7.0 4.45695364238 157% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 4.0 4.27373068433 94% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.303830435906 0.272083759551 112% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0946138381143 0.0996497079465 95% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0993398868805 0.0662205650399 150% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.198065141991 0.162205337803 122% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0938307029381 0.0443174109184 212% => More connections among paragraphs wanted.
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 9.7 13.3589403974 73% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 62.68 53.8541721854 116% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 8.7 11.0289183223 79% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 10.09 12.2367328918 82% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.71 8.42419426049 92% => OK
difficult_words: 67.0 63.6247240618 105% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 6.0 10.7273730684 56% => Linsear_write_formula is low.
gunning_fog: 8.8 10.498013245 84% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 11.2008830022 80% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 66.6666666667 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 20.0 Out of 30
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