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Week 12 Edits

I added to the morphology section of the rabbit page. I just put in a sentence with a citation. This sentence was about rabbit's paw pads and how they are corse hair rather than a special protective tissue like most animals.

Week 11 Picture

This image come from a specimen in the Pacific Lutheran University natural history collection. It shows that rabbits hind limbs are very long. Due to this they are in a compressed when they are not in motion. This then allows them to expand and produce a lot of force so they can move at high speeds.

When looking for pictures of rabbit's skeletal hind limbs I couldn't find any thing. There was nothing in the creative commons or on the pubic domain. The pictures I did find were not of actual skeletons just illustrations. I decided to take my own picture using the specimens in the natural history museum in class. I believe this shows very well how rabbits hind limbs are compressed when not in motion. This allows them to expand and produce a powerful hopping form of locomotion. This will help readers better visualize what I am trying to say in my article. This picture however does not show how rabbits use just the tips of their toes when hopping. Which is something I talk about in my article. I will be adding this image with my article to the rabbit main page.

Week 10 Draft Revision

The anatomy of rabbits hind limbs are structurally similar to that of other land mammals and contribute to their specialized form of locomotion. The Bones of the hind limbs consist of long bones the femur, tibia, fibula, and phalanges as well as short bones the tarsals. These bones are created through Endochondral ossification during development. Like most land mammals the round head of the femur articulates with the acetabulum of the ox coxae. The femur then articulates with the tibia but not the fibula witch is fused to the tibia. The tibia and fibula articulate with the tarsals of the pes commonly called the foot. The hind limbs of the rabbit are longer than the front limbs. This allows them to produce their hopping form of locomotion. Longer hind limbs are more capable of producing faster speeds. Hares witch have longer legs then Cottontail rabbits abel to move considerably faster . Rabbits stay just on their toes when moving this is called Digitigrade locomotion. The hind feet have four long toes that allow for this and are webbed to prevent them from spreading when hopping . Rabbits do not have paw pads on their feet like most other animals that use digitigrade locomotion, instead they have coarse compressed hair that offer protection .

Week 9 peer review response

Photos: One of the short comings of our draft was that we really didn't describe in great detail what we are going to do with pictures. There were not very many pictures of the deeper structures of the hind limbs or ear of the rabbit on line. We discussed this as a group and have decided that we will use pictures from our dissections. For this we will take pictures of the vasculature of the ear because they are involved a lot in thermoregulation. We will also take pictures of the hind legs musculature and label the major muscles.

Hind limbs: I received a lot of positive feed back from my peers on may section of the draft. There were no grammatical errors for the most part. It was mentioned that that style of the draft could be improved. The descriptions of the muscles used in rabbits hind legs could be elaborated on earlier in my section inside of in the section of another group member. It was also stated that it was hard to figure out what group member contributed to what section. So next time we could try to lay out our sections better and try make it more noticeable what group member did what. We could also add links within our draft to other wikipedia pages that pertain to what we are taking about. One of the major critiques I got was to describe in better detail the musculature of the rabbits hind legs. There really isn't very much peer reviewed information specially on the muscles of the rabbit hind legs. Due to this I will be relying on our dissection to gather this information.

Week 6 draft

I decided to provide more information on the skeletal anatomy of the rabbits hind legs. There was not much information on the rabbit page concerning this. I will be abel to elaborate more once we start dissecting the rabbit and hopefully get some pictures to show some of these major articulations.

The skeletal anatomy of the rabbits hind legs are similar to that of other land mammals. The round head of the femur articulates with the acetabulum of the os coxae. The femur then articulates with the tibia and not the fibula witch is connected to the tibia. Due to the morphology of rabbits this joint is closer to the midline of the body rather than distaly like some mammals. This puts their legs in a compressed state that extend to produce their hopping moment. The tibia and fibula then articulate with the tarsals of the pes commonly called the foot. Rabbit's hind feet have 4 long toes that are webbed to prevent them from spreading apart when jumping. Rabbits do not have paw pads like most animals instead they have coarse compressed hair on their toes that offer protection.

Article Evaluation Morphology (biology)

• Every thing in the article is relevant, I don't really know why the authors put a section in there for for 3d morphology of the cell.

• This article has discussion in the talk page of some one who changed the definition of morphology. I believe they changed it back but I'm not sure.

• The historical background of morphology seems to be lacking in very much information. There should be more in there to give the whole story of morphology.

• Only one of the links work and its just to a dictionary page. The dictionary source provided information on the definition of morphology but nothing els. The others do not work so it makes it hard to access this information to see if it is valid or even real.

• Every statement has a cite attached to it. But they are all from the same source.

• The cites come from a old source but I cannot access it so it makes checking the validity of it hard to to.

• The one source that I can activate is not plagiarized they did a good job paraphrasing. All the statements they have made have cites next to them.

• The main source they use is from 1992 witch is light-years ago in the context of changes made in the field of morphology and biology as a whole.

• On the talk page there was talk about a youtube user who disagrees with the commonly accepted definition of morphology. A user went on the Morphology page and changed the definition so that it agrees with the definition of that youtube user.

• Ours does not seem to have a ratting. It has not be reviewed and contain enough content to become a featured article.

• There really isn't much difference they just define what Morphology is, But they add a section in 3D cell Morphology and we have not talked about this in class.