Thousands of animals currently reside in zoos around the world. Recently, there has been much debate about the value of zoos in today's world. Careful consideration of the facts reveals that zoos are unethical and should be closed.
First, defenders of zoos say that they are an important way of saving animals from extinction. However, in actuality, zoos have had very little success in protecting animals. One reason for this is because many animals do not thrive in zoos. Breeding in captivity is often .difficult to encourage. Endangered animals fare far better with protection programs that allow them to stay in the wild.
Additionally, zoos do not adequately provide animals with living spaces that are like their natural habitats. As a result, animals are not able to behave as they normally would. For example, a lion in a small cage is not able to run around, much less hunt. In the end, the animals end up depressed or with behavioral problems. This would not occur, of course, if they were not kept in zoos in the first place.
Finally, zoos simply are not the best way to study animals. There are a number of well-researched books available. Alternately, wildlife biologists stand to gain much more knowledge about animals by observing them in the wild. That way, they see how animals interact with other creatures without human interference.
The reading and the lecture are both about pros and cons of zoos as artificial habit of life for wild animals. According to the reading passage, the cons outweigh pros of zoos. The lecturer casts doubt on the claims made in the article, she contends that enclosures are actually beneficial to wild animals and general public. She uses the following evidence to prove that zoos are neither useless nor harmful to the wild animals.
To begin with, the lecturer contends that a zoo is an incredibly effective tool to save protecting nearly extinct species. She provides an example of a wild bird condor, whose population counted to just several species and was in danger of disappearance. Employees of the zoos encouraged those condor to reproduce and breed and then released the bird into the wild, and now the population of condor counts at least several hundreds of species. This statement counters the point made in the article according to which zoos do little to protect animals.
Furthermore, many modern zoos have natural life philosophy, following which, for example, the zoo in North Carolina built thirty seven acres of African planes to recreate wildlife. This statement counters the author’s point according to which ops do not provide enough space for wild animals so they may naturally behave themselves.
By the same token, the professor posits that the best way to study and observe creatures is the closed habitat such as the zoo. Recreated wild life in the zoo make it possible for general public and scientists to review the animals and boost their knowledge about those creatures. This undermines the author’s point whereby the zoos are not the best way to gain exceptional experience from observation.
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 311, Rule ID: GENERAL_XX[1]
Message: Use simply 'public'.
Suggestion: public
...actually beneficial to wild animals and general public. She uses the following evidence to pro...
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Line 2, column 288, Rule ID: THIS_NNS[2]
Message: Did you mean 'this condor' or 'those condores', 'those condors'?
Suggestion: this condor; those condores; those condors
...rance. Employees of the zoos encouraged those condor to reproduce and breed and then release...
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Line 4, column 180, Rule ID: GENERAL_XX[1]
Message: Use simply 'public'.
Suggestion: public
...ld life in the zoo make it possible for general public and scientists to review the animals an...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
actually, furthermore, if, may, so, then, at least, for example, such as, to begin with, by the same token
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 7.0 10.4613686534 67% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 1.0 5.04856512141 20% => OK
Conjunction : 11.0 7.30242825607 151% => OK
Relative clauses : 8.0 12.0772626932 66% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 16.0 22.412803532 71% => OK
Preposition: 37.0 30.3222958057 122% => OK
Nominalization: 8.0 5.01324503311 160% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1443.0 1373.03311258 105% => OK
No of words: 285.0 270.72406181 105% => OK
Chars per words: 5.06315789474 5.08290768461 100% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.10876417139 4.04702891845 102% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.60060366598 2.5805825403 101% => OK
Unique words: 161.0 145.348785872 111% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.564912280702 0.540411800872 105% => OK
syllable_count: 449.1 419.366225166 107% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.55342163355 103% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 6.0 3.25607064018 184% => OK
Article: 6.0 8.23620309051 73% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 1.25165562914 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 1.0 1.51434878587 66% => OK
Preposition: 3.0 2.5761589404 116% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 13.0 13.0662251656 99% => OK
Sentence length: 21.0 21.2450331126 99% => OK
Sentence length SD: 31.8400217062 49.2860985944 65% => OK
Chars per sentence: 111.0 110.228320801 101% => OK
Words per sentence: 21.9230769231 21.698381199 101% => OK
Discourse Markers: 8.15384615385 7.06452816374 115% => OK
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 : 2.0 4.45695364238 45% => More negative sentences wanted.
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: 0.201139841183 0.272083759551 74% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0781047445666 0.0996497079465 78% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0492831011237 0.0662205650399 74% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.129208453378 0.162205337803 80% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0344611946998 0.0443174109184 78% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.4 13.3589403974 100% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 50.16 53.8541721854 93% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 5.55761589404 158% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.5 11.0289183223 104% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.07 12.2367328918 99% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.61 8.42419426049 102% => OK
difficult_words: 71.0 63.6247240618 112% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.0 10.7273730684 75% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.4 10.498013245 99% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 11.2008830022 80% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 80.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 24.0 Out of 30
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Note: the e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas. VIP users will receive further evaluations by advanced module of e-grader and human graders.