Talk:Giant Gippsland earthworm

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More common

We live in an area where they are found & after 30 years of farming here I would judge them to be considerably more numerous. (comment by 203.220.40.155)

Article needs a picture

Awwww! c'mon, someone post a picture please!!!! JAUN LOVE to SEE PICTURE

How many species?

The earthworm article states that there is only some 300 species of native earthworms in Australia.

ANSWER: About 650 natives are currently described from Austalia (inc. Tassie) with about 75 introduced exotics; if more interest were shown (with funding) then this would undoubtedly double in short order and could be expected to finally yield >2,000 natives - considering the land area and lack of comprehensive survey for most of it.

Can they really be heard moving?

"They can sometimes be heard in their habitat making gurgling sounds as they move underground." The article says I'm having a hard time believing that. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 95.34.36.30 (talk) 13:58, 13 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

i've got a source for the whole "gurgling" thing, it's a youtube video of an attenborough documentary but i'm not sure if that's a valid citation. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uO4lkv-jLRs — Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.168.104.246 (talk) 07:37, 3 July 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Query re measurements

When did 1 meter become 3 feet? Or 2 cm become 1 inch? Drhamad (talk) 04:19, 14 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]

The measurements are automatically converted to the same degree of precision in the new units as in the old. To give greater precision in the converted figures would imply greater precision than probably exists in the original ones. HiLo48 (talk) 04:33, 14 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Improved the article by adding pictures

I have improved the article by adding some pictures of the Giant Gippsland earthworm. here is the link to my sandbox of the article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Katrina99/sandbox I chose some pictures of the Giant Gippsland earthworm, which are match the article describing, on the internetI. And then I uploaded the images to the “Upload Wizard” in the Wikimiedia Commons first, in order to ensure the images is legal to be uploaded in public. After this, I put the pictures on the end of each paragraph. Please give me some advise of the changing of the articles. I am willing to take the advises and make my work better. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Katrina99 (talk • contribs) 18:27, 9 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]

If you found these photos on the internet they are not yours to put in the public domain. Unless they were already given public domain status they will not be kept on Commons. A pity because they are useful but that is the law.--Charles (talk) 22:16, 9 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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what do Giant Gippsland Earthworms eat?

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