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Collared brown lemur has been listed as one of the Natural sciences good articles under the good article criteria. If you can improve it further, please do so. If it no longer meets these criteria, you can reassess it.

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March 13, 2010	Good article nominee	Listed

A fact from this article appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the "Did you know?" column on February 4, 2009.

The text of the entry was: Did you know ... that unlike most other lemurs, the Collared Brown Lemurs do not demonstrate female dominance?

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Major revision: re-write

Today I completely re-wrote the article. Feel free to make revisions as needed. Also watch for new research articles on this species. –Visionholder (talk) 23:24, 28 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Unsolicited lit survey

More scholarly sources to pad this article. There's also a lot of conference abstracts, but I didn't list those. Sasata (talk) 19:56, 26 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Title: Proximate and ultimate determinants of cathemeral activity in brown lemurs

Author(s): Donati, Giuseppe; Baldi, Nicoletta; Morelli, Valentina, et al.

Source: Animal Behaviour Volume: 77 Issue: 2 Pages: 317-325 Published: FEB 2009

Title: Habitat use and social structure of a brown lemur hybrid population in the Berenty Reserve, Madagascar

Author(s): Tanaka, M

Source: AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PRIMATOLOGY Volume: 69 Pages: 1189-1194 Published: 2007

Title: Feeding over the 24-h cycle: dietary flexibility of cathemeral collared lemurs (Eulemur collaris)

Author(s): Donati, G; Bollen, A; Borgognini-Tarli, SM, et al.

Source: BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY AND SOCIOBIOLOGY Volume: 61 Issue: 8 Pages: 1237-1251 Published: JUN 2007

Title: Environmental and phylogenetic correlates of Eulemur behavior and ecology (Primates : Lemuridae)

Author(s): Ossi, K; Kamilar, JM

Source: BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY AND SOCIOBIOLOGY Volume: 61 Issue: 1 Pages: 53-64 Published: NOV 2006

Title: Relations between fruits and disperser assemblages in a Malagasy littoral forest: a community-level approach

Author(s): Bollen, A; Van Elsacker, L; Ganzhorn, JU

Source: JOURNAL OF TROPICAL ECOLOGY Volume: 20 Pages: 599-612 Part: 6 Published: NOV 2004

Title: Tree dispersal strategies in the littoral forest of Sainte Luce (SE-Madagascar)

Author(s): Bollen, A; Van Elsacker, L; Ganzhorn, JU

Source: OECOLOGIA Volume: 139 Issue: 4 Pages: 604-616 Published: MAY 2004

Title: Biogeography of lemurs in the humid forests of Madagascar: the role of elevational distribution and rivers

Author(s): Goodman, SM; Ganzhorn, JU

Source: JOURNAL OF BIOGEOGRAPHY Volume: 31 Issue: 1 Pages: 47-55 Published: 2004

As with the Gray Mouse Lemur, I think that almost all of these articles are looking at this species as a model organism for the many true lemur species, especially since its range is located within a day's drive of Berenty Private Reserve, one of the major research locations in southern Madagascar. However, I'm sure I can pull some interesting tidbits and sprinkle them into the article. Otherwise, the gory details will probably be reserved for the upcoming re-write of True lemur. I hope you agree. – VisionHolder « talk » 20:22, 26 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

GA Review

This review is transcluded from Talk:Collared Brown Lemur/GA1. The edit link for this section can be used to add comments to the review.

Reviewer: Miyagawa (talk) 21:50, 12 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Had a decent read through of the article, prose quality is good and engaging.

A line needs to be added to the lead paragraph to summarise the Conversation status section. All other sections already have a mention.

"the Collared Brown Lemur was promoted to full species status in 2001" - by who?

I appreciate that information is limited, but is there any information on natural predators?

Overall a very nice job on a species where information is not readily available. Miyagawa (talk) 21:50, 12 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for the comments. I have fixed the first 2 issues, and after reviewing the newer lemur books I have recently acquired, as well as searching the literature on Google Scholar, I have not been able to find anything specific to this species. I guess I could mention general lemur predators, but otherwise this apparently has not been studied in this species. – VisionHolder « talk » 00:49, 13 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

No problem, if the information isn't available, then it isn't available.

GA review (see here for criteria)

It is reasonably well written.
a (prose): b (MoS):
It is factually accurate and verifiable.
a (references): b (citations to reliable sources): c (OR):
It is broad in its coverage.
a (major aspects): b (focused):
It follows the neutral point of view policy.
Fair representation without bias:
It is stable.
No edit wars, etc.:
It is illustrated by images, where possible and appropriate.
a (images are tagged and non-free images have fair use rationales): b (appropriate use with suitable captions):
Overall:
Pass/Fail:

Good job with the article. :) Miyagawa (talk) 21:16, 13 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Pre-FAC review

The following comments are based on a quick read through. I'll look more closely later. Sasata (talk) 17:35, 15 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

is it necessary to put the year of the drawing in the taxobox image?
wlink vulnerable species
range map?
please give more details on who originally described the species (& who he was), what publication it was in, a link to the prologue if available online
link subspecies
"…the Collared Brown Lemur was promoted to full species status in 2001 by biological anthropologist Colin Groves." details? What were his justifications for doing so?
"An adult Collared Brown Lemur can reach a head-body length of 39 and 40 cm" need the word "between" in there and other later examples
link rufous; "Eyes" data in table not capitalized unlike others
why is the section name "Anatomy and physiology" when physiology is not discussed?
any more info for this section? length/weight of newborns? Lifespan? Age of sexual maturity? I know info is sparse but surely there must be something more than coloration and length/weight
Do these lemurs get parasites?
"Females of these two species are nearly indistinguishable, despite that genetic analyses support full species status for both taxa." what kind of genetic analyses?
"The Collared Brown Lemur was listed as Vulnerable (VU A2cd)" is the parenthetical part vital information?
"A small group of Collared Brown Lemurs was introduced in the 1980s into the Berenty Private Reserve…" details… who did this and why?
refs: pp for page ranges