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.
Many of the critics believe that the zoo must be changed as it is inhuman to animals. It provide no real benefit to society besides providing entertainment at the expense of the animals involved but the article states that zoos are essential to modern culture and provides a great value to the animals life in many ways. He provides three reasons to support his opinion. On the other hand, the lecturer totally refutes the idea pitched by the author and believes that zoo is in no way provide any benefit to the animals. Below are the examples provided by the professor to counter every reason given by the author.
Firstly, the author believes that the animals are treated very well inside the zoos and usually passionate animal lovers are found inside them. The lecturer refuses the author opinion saying the animals are not treated with utmost care inside the zoo. He describes about the recent incident, in one of the zoo where accidental rat poison exposure to the two red pandas leads to their death. Although, the life of these pandas could have been saved by the safety manager appointed in the zoo but they were not found anywhere near the crime scene. It clearly show about the lack of responsibility and sincerity of the people appointed in the zoo. This is just one of the hundreds of incidents which shows the lack of care given to animals in the zoo.
Secondly, the author states that the zoos are seen as a source of education rather than a place for entertainment. The professor refutes the author’s statement as most of the animals present inside the zoo are kept to attract more visitors instead of the animals which are not commonly seen. Keeping uncommon animals in zoo will increase the information level of people. This not only encourages the wrong idea of using animals for own purpose but also develops a sense of using animals for financial gains. If the animals of different and rare type are shown, they are put in very artificial and misleading way to the visitors. Thus, it doesn’t adds up as a source of education for the visitors.
Thirdly, in the authors view zoos are a brilliant way to provide shelter in order to protect endangered and distinct species. The lecturer refutes the idea saying that the example of increase in the population of Golden Lion Tamarins mentioned by the author is the situation of one out of hundred zoos. If we look at the overall success rate of inhabiting endangered species, it is poor. In most of the zoos, these species when kept with each other tend to interbreed within themselves leading to high rate of birth defects. Thus, zoo has proved to be of no advantage for the endangered species.
In conclusion, the lecturer states that the amount of advantages provided by the zoo are very less in comparison to the harm in brings to the society. Zoo spreads a wrong information about using animals for personal profit in the society. Thus, the professor really refutes the idea of promoting more zoos in the country. Only zoos that are not focused into earning money but considerate towards providing shelter and creating home like environment to increase the survival of animals should be promoted to be opened.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, besides, but, first, firstly, if, look, really, second, secondly, so, third, thirdly, thus, well, in conclusion, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 24.0 10.4613686534 229% => Less to be verbs wanted.
Auxiliary verbs: 4.0 5.04856512141 79% => OK
Conjunction : 12.0 7.30242825607 164% => OK
Relative clauses : 12.0 12.0772626932 99% => OK
Pronoun: 26.0 22.412803532 116% => OK
Preposition: 91.0 30.3222958057 300% => Less preposition wanted.
Nominalization: 10.0 5.01324503311 199% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2649.0 1373.03311258 193% => OK
No of words: 552.0 270.72406181 204% => Less content wanted.
Chars per words: 4.79891304348 5.08290768461 94% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.84713113593 4.04702891845 120% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.52730766879 2.5805825403 98% => OK
Unique words: 256.0 145.348785872 176% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.463768115942 0.540411800872 86% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 862.2 419.366225166 206% => syllable counts are too long.
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.55342163355 103% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 10.0 3.25607064018 307% => Less pronouns wanted as sentence beginning.
Article: 9.0 8.23620309051 109% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 1.25165562914 160% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.51434878587 0% => OK
Preposition: 6.0 2.5761589404 233% => Less preposition wanted as sentence beginnings.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 26.0 13.0662251656 199% => OK
Sentence length: 21.0 21.2450331126 99% => OK
Sentence length SD: 43.0145152328 49.2860985944 87% => OK
Chars per sentence: 101.884615385 110.228320801 92% => OK
Words per sentence: 21.2307692308 21.698381199 98% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.23076923077 7.06452816374 74% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.09492273731 122% => OK
Language errors: 4.0 4.19205298013 95% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 16.0 4.33554083885 369% => Less positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 8.0 4.45695364238 179% => 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: 0.447911520684 0.272083759551 165% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.122594771838 0.0996497079465 123% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0944608274326 0.0662205650399 143% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.253086395561 0.162205337803 156% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.120653079932 0.0443174109184 272% => More connections among paragraphs wanted.
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 11.8 13.3589403974 88% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 50.16 53.8541721854 93% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.5 11.0289183223 104% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 10.56 12.2367328918 86% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.05 8.42419426049 96% => OK
difficult_words: 118.0 63.6247240618 185% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 9.0 10.7273730684 84% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.4 10.498013245 99% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 11.2008830022 107% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 73.3333333333 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 22.0 Out of 30
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