Talk:Lagidium ahuacaense/GA1

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Reviewer: Casliber (talk · contribs) 14:22, 22 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Okay here we go....

.~~.. north of the nearest previously known population of Lagidium in central Peru~~ ~~- makes it sound like some sort of plant or fungus rather than related species of rodent. Needs a reword to reflect this but nothing coming to mind.~~

~~north of the northernmost previously known population of~~ ~~Lagidium (mountain viscachas) in central Peru - I think that just naming the species here will help clarify that it isn't a group noun.~~
- Thanks for taking on the review. I don't really see the problem you saw, but introducing "mountain viscachas" into that sentence does seem an improvement. On the other hand, you rewrote part of the lead to say "as few as a few dozen individuals", which I can't think of a way to improve right now. Ucucha 14:28, 22 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]
  - That's better, just tweaking it that way in the lead. Casliber (talk · contribs) 14:41, 22 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

The Description section gives me all the usual rodenty stuff, which is fine, then I saw a photo of the Northern Viscacha - wow, I didn't think they'd look like that somehow...more "ratty" I guess. If you can, maybe a sentence or two saying that their overall body shape is like..(might be a general bit to source from a general lagidium source somehow.
- Better yet, I put in a picture of peruanum. There is a photo of this species in Werner et al. (2006) (which is actually freely available online—I put in a link), and it looks pretty similar. Ucucha 15:42, 22 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]
  - Yes that helps.

I have slept on it and realise we are faced with the usual conundrum here again...feeding and breeding habits which I guess are unknown. I would think it'd be okay to write that the feeding and breeding habits are not described, as it clarifies the subject for the reader. Are there any general comments that can be made about mountain viscachas that are applicable to all the others? (I faced a similar problem when mentioning pollinators for Banksia scabrella -should be obvious but no-one has described to date). Casliber (talk · contribs) 20:51, 22 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]
- I'm not fond of "we don't know about this" comments: for a species like this, there's so much unknown that we could write a longer article saying what we don't know than saying what we do know. In fact, I don't know much about feeding and breeding in other Lagidium (though I'll be able to find it out if necessary), but I think it would be off topic to describe the habits of the other species here. That said, there were a few minor pieces from the sources I could add. Ucucha 21:06, 22 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]
  - I know it is tricky - I only thought of touching on any behavioural features clearly attributable to all other species. ~~I'll see what you add.~~ Casliber (talk · contribs) 21:22, 22 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]
  - Okay, that is good, the second bit about needing more research into its biology I think sends a good message that we know little about it. Now to dig up the template thingies...Casliber (talk · contribs) 21:25, 22 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]