This is the
talk page for discussing improvements to the
Aye-aye article. This is not a forum for general discussion of the article's subject. |
Article policies
|
Find sources: Google ( books · news · scholar · free images · WP refs) · FENS · JSTOR · TWL |
This
level-5 vital article is rated B-class on Wikipedia's
content assessment scale. It is of interest to the following WikiProjects: | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
|
What is up with that? What does that mean?
Much like other primates, it possesses opposable thumbs, but both the hallux and the fingers are long and thin, and appear to be in a curved position somewhat similar to that of a fairy-tale witch when the muscles are relaxed.
brain 21:57, 26 April 2007 (UTC)
there is no mention on the article about the Aye-Aye being a lemur.......even if it is only "thought" to be one (i.e. scientist's are debating about what it's related to)
The capitalisation of the name in this article is inconsistent. As the common name of an animal, shouldn't it always be spelt "aye-aye"? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 205.205.104.56 ( talk) 16:28, 5 December 2007 (UTC)
I really like this page, how would I recommend it for article of the day? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Matt512 ( talk • contribs) 09:27, 10 January 2008 (UTC)
Just saw on eggheads that aye-ayes are the only mamal to catch their prey using echo location. Can't see any info on this on the world wide web. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 79.68.155.196 ( talk) 17:16, 2 April 2008 (UTC)
Marines and sailors say "aye-aye" (or simply "aye") in acknowledgement of a given order. I was a bit surprised to find this article instead of a disambiguation page when I clicked on the link from List_of_U.S._Marine_Corps_acronyms_and_expressions#A. -- Cuervo, not logged in 76.176.168.180 ( talk) 03:37, 30 January 2009 (UTC)
According to most WEB data I found, there are about 1000 to 2000 Aye Ayes living today, so declaring the species as only "Near Threatened" seems to be inaccurate. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 85.64.40.205 ( talk) 15:53, 12 July 2009 (UTC)
“ | Listed as Near Threatened as although the species is now known to be widespread and adaptable, it is thought to have undergone a reduction of 20-25% over the past 24 years (assuming a generation length of 8 years) due primarily to a decline in area and quality of habitat and ongoing levels of exploitation/persecution. Almost qualifies as threatened under criterion A2cd. | ” |
I am preparing to adjust the classification of this species per numerous sources. Please join the discussion on the WP:PRIMATE discussion page before I make any changes. – Visionholder ( talk) 23:42, 25 August 2009 (UTC)
I had planned to re-write this article in December 2011, but circumstances thwarted the effort. I have been making plans since, but other articles have emerged as priorities, and now I have an important essay to write for an academic journal. To anyone following my edit comments promising an upcoming re-write, it is still a priority for this year. I plan to resume once I finish the toothcomb article, the grooming claw article, my essay, and another etymology publication for Lemur News. Following this article, I plan to shift gears and finish all the subfossil lemur articles. After that (and probably in 2013... maybe earlier), I plan to re-write some of the most noteworthy lemur articles as well as the more general family articles. Sorry for the delays. – Maky « talk » 06:40, 8 March 2012 (UTC)
In the infobox title, two references are cited. Does anyone know why these are there?__ DrChrissy ( talk) 18:03, 3 February 2015 (UTC)
I added a hi res photo (close up of the head) instead of an old, low-res black/white drawing to the taxobox and was reverted. It seems to be generally agreed that photos of live, wild animals are preferred in the taxobox over drawings. The rationale was that it showed the whole animal, but I don't see why that should trump an actual photo. Here's a photo where almost as much is seen of the animal. [1] Any thoughts? FunkMonk ( talk) 16:29, 27 August 2015 (UTC)
In the prologue it is clearly mentioned that the animal uses it's 3rd digit to pull the grubs out. Strangely, in main text, the 4th digit is mentioned for the same function. I do believe that the last one is wrong, because the longest digit is the 3rd, not the 4th!
Looking carefully at the photo in the text, one can see that the 4th digit is the longest one, but the problem remains. Which finger is used to extract larvae?
Note: There appears to be reports of them having 6 digits... [1] Mit ( talk) 18:59, 21 October 2019 (UTC)mitayai
References
Hello fellow Wikipedians,
I have just modified one external link on Aye-aye. Please take a moment to review my edit. If you have any questions, or need the bot to ignore the links, or the page altogether, please visit this simple FaQ for additional information. I made the following changes:
When you have finished reviewing my changes, you may follow the instructions on the template below to fix any issues with the URLs.
This message was posted before February 2018.
After February 2018, "External links modified" talk page sections are no longer generated or monitored by InternetArchiveBot. No special action is required regarding these talk page notices, other than
regular verification using the archive tool instructions below. Editors
have permission to delete these "External links modified" talk page sections if they want to de-clutter talk pages, but see the
RfC before doing mass systematic removals. This message is updated dynamically through the template {{
source check}}
(last update: 5 June 2024).
Cheers.— InternetArchiveBot ( Report bug) 14:25, 4 September 2017 (UTC)
I tried to add a link to an abstract that I found for one of this article's references (http://www.readabstracts.com/Zoology-and-wildlife-conservation/Eep!-its-an-aye-aye-The-right-stuff.html), but this link is included in Wikipedia's spam blacklist. Why does Wikipedia not allow links to this website? Jarble ( talk) 19:54, 8 July 2019 (UTC)
what do aye ayes do to survive? 98.179.157.204 ( talk) 14:44, 24 May 2023 (UTC)
Sorry, I've never commented on a Wikipedia before but I would like to know if anyone can fix the external link "Primate Behaviour: Aye-Aye"? It keeps directing me to some website called ThePrimata that is very clearly not the intended destination. Thank you for taking the time to read this. AyeAyeFan ( talk) 11:34, 17 May 2024 (UTC)
This is the
talk page for discussing improvements to the
Aye-aye article. This is not a forum for general discussion of the article's subject. |
Article policies
|
Find sources: Google ( books · news · scholar · free images · WP refs) · FENS · JSTOR · TWL |
This
level-5 vital article is rated B-class on Wikipedia's
content assessment scale. It is of interest to the following WikiProjects: | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
|
What is up with that? What does that mean?
Much like other primates, it possesses opposable thumbs, but both the hallux and the fingers are long and thin, and appear to be in a curved position somewhat similar to that of a fairy-tale witch when the muscles are relaxed.
brain 21:57, 26 April 2007 (UTC)
there is no mention on the article about the Aye-Aye being a lemur.......even if it is only "thought" to be one (i.e. scientist's are debating about what it's related to)
The capitalisation of the name in this article is inconsistent. As the common name of an animal, shouldn't it always be spelt "aye-aye"? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 205.205.104.56 ( talk) 16:28, 5 December 2007 (UTC)
I really like this page, how would I recommend it for article of the day? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Matt512 ( talk • contribs) 09:27, 10 January 2008 (UTC)
Just saw on eggheads that aye-ayes are the only mamal to catch their prey using echo location. Can't see any info on this on the world wide web. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 79.68.155.196 ( talk) 17:16, 2 April 2008 (UTC)
Marines and sailors say "aye-aye" (or simply "aye") in acknowledgement of a given order. I was a bit surprised to find this article instead of a disambiguation page when I clicked on the link from List_of_U.S._Marine_Corps_acronyms_and_expressions#A. -- Cuervo, not logged in 76.176.168.180 ( talk) 03:37, 30 January 2009 (UTC)
According to most WEB data I found, there are about 1000 to 2000 Aye Ayes living today, so declaring the species as only "Near Threatened" seems to be inaccurate. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 85.64.40.205 ( talk) 15:53, 12 July 2009 (UTC)
“ | Listed as Near Threatened as although the species is now known to be widespread and adaptable, it is thought to have undergone a reduction of 20-25% over the past 24 years (assuming a generation length of 8 years) due primarily to a decline in area and quality of habitat and ongoing levels of exploitation/persecution. Almost qualifies as threatened under criterion A2cd. | ” |
I am preparing to adjust the classification of this species per numerous sources. Please join the discussion on the WP:PRIMATE discussion page before I make any changes. – Visionholder ( talk) 23:42, 25 August 2009 (UTC)
I had planned to re-write this article in December 2011, but circumstances thwarted the effort. I have been making plans since, but other articles have emerged as priorities, and now I have an important essay to write for an academic journal. To anyone following my edit comments promising an upcoming re-write, it is still a priority for this year. I plan to resume once I finish the toothcomb article, the grooming claw article, my essay, and another etymology publication for Lemur News. Following this article, I plan to shift gears and finish all the subfossil lemur articles. After that (and probably in 2013... maybe earlier), I plan to re-write some of the most noteworthy lemur articles as well as the more general family articles. Sorry for the delays. – Maky « talk » 06:40, 8 March 2012 (UTC)
In the infobox title, two references are cited. Does anyone know why these are there?__ DrChrissy ( talk) 18:03, 3 February 2015 (UTC)
I added a hi res photo (close up of the head) instead of an old, low-res black/white drawing to the taxobox and was reverted. It seems to be generally agreed that photos of live, wild animals are preferred in the taxobox over drawings. The rationale was that it showed the whole animal, but I don't see why that should trump an actual photo. Here's a photo where almost as much is seen of the animal. [1] Any thoughts? FunkMonk ( talk) 16:29, 27 August 2015 (UTC)
In the prologue it is clearly mentioned that the animal uses it's 3rd digit to pull the grubs out. Strangely, in main text, the 4th digit is mentioned for the same function. I do believe that the last one is wrong, because the longest digit is the 3rd, not the 4th!
Looking carefully at the photo in the text, one can see that the 4th digit is the longest one, but the problem remains. Which finger is used to extract larvae?
Note: There appears to be reports of them having 6 digits... [1] Mit ( talk) 18:59, 21 October 2019 (UTC)mitayai
References
Hello fellow Wikipedians,
I have just modified one external link on Aye-aye. Please take a moment to review my edit. If you have any questions, or need the bot to ignore the links, or the page altogether, please visit this simple FaQ for additional information. I made the following changes:
When you have finished reviewing my changes, you may follow the instructions on the template below to fix any issues with the URLs.
This message was posted before February 2018.
After February 2018, "External links modified" talk page sections are no longer generated or monitored by InternetArchiveBot. No special action is required regarding these talk page notices, other than
regular verification using the archive tool instructions below. Editors
have permission to delete these "External links modified" talk page sections if they want to de-clutter talk pages, but see the
RfC before doing mass systematic removals. This message is updated dynamically through the template {{
source check}}
(last update: 5 June 2024).
Cheers.— InternetArchiveBot ( Report bug) 14:25, 4 September 2017 (UTC)
I tried to add a link to an abstract that I found for one of this article's references (http://www.readabstracts.com/Zoology-and-wildlife-conservation/Eep!-its-an-aye-aye-The-right-stuff.html), but this link is included in Wikipedia's spam blacklist. Why does Wikipedia not allow links to this website? Jarble ( talk) 19:54, 8 July 2019 (UTC)
what do aye ayes do to survive? 98.179.157.204 ( talk) 14:44, 24 May 2023 (UTC)
Sorry, I've never commented on a Wikipedia before but I would like to know if anyone can fix the external link "Primate Behaviour: Aye-Aye"? It keeps directing me to some website called ThePrimata that is very clearly not the intended destination. Thank you for taking the time to read this. AyeAyeFan ( talk) 11:34, 17 May 2024 (UTC)