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No one tells it. I guess it's the king of mole-rats because it is one of the largest.
I'm not sure what the reader is supposed to learn from the hair pic. Is is structurally different than regular rat hairs?
I'm not sure either; the source doesn't say much about the hairs of T. rex. I figured I'd put in whatever picture of the animal I could get.
I'm ambivalent about its usefulness. I won't be reverting if someone else decides to take it out. Ideally, some Kenyan of the future with a digital camera will read this article and climb a mountain for us.
Sasata (
talk) 05:08, 31 March 2010 (UTC)reply
I guess so. I think we'd rather hope for that Kenyan to take a photo of the animal instead of just a few hairs.
"Young animals are dark-furred, with some irregular white areas." irregular in what way? Shape?
I think so, but Hollister says nothing more than this.
"…and has the capsule of the incisor placed further to the front." I checked out the linked article to find out what this capsule was, but to no avail. What is it?
I wonder; this is what Heller writes, but I'm none too familiar with anatomical terms for Tachyoryctes. I guessed it might be the capsular process seen in rice rats (as in the bulge in
File:Oryzomys palustris mandible.png above the "8"), but I can't see that at all in the mandible of T. rex. I think I'd best leave it at this, since it's what the source has to tell.
I'd suggest inserting one of the pics available in the Mount Kenya article to show the habitat, but there's not a lot of room…
No room, I think—on my screen, the taxobox is already as long as the entire text.
not part of this review, but you might wanna add a link to this article from the Mount Kenya article in the fauna section
Done.
"A female found on October 5 had a large embryo." this sentence just seems thrown in there, with no context. Why is the date important? Why is the embryo size important? What was it large in comparison to?
It subtly suggests that their breeding season probably includes September; that it was large suggests that the pregnancy of the female had proceeded a little already. The sources have nothing more to say.
"In other chambers,[8]" I'm confused about the placement of this citation.does [8] cite the previous two sentences plus the three words shown here?
It did, but I changed it to something more logical.
"The animal eat plant roots." like what, typically?
The source doesn't say.
anything good in this?:
Title: THE MAMMALS OF THE NORTHERN SLOPES OF MT KENYA
Author(s): COE M J; FOSTER J B
Source: Journal of the East Africa Natural History Society and National Museum Volume: 131 Pages: 1-18 Published: 1972
I haven't seen it, but the Zoological Record data suggest it only concerns altitudinal distribution, which we already have. Musser and Carleton don't find it important enough to cite either, and they generally cite pertinent papers for the other Tachyoryctes. I can have a look the next time I am in the library, but don't think it should be needed for GA.
don't you want to mention that the type specimen was collected by the field naturalist
J. Alden Loring who was part of a scientific expedition to Africa along with
Theodore Roosevelt? C'mon, that's good stuff!
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No one tells it. I guess it's the king of mole-rats because it is one of the largest.
I'm not sure what the reader is supposed to learn from the hair pic. Is is structurally different than regular rat hairs?
I'm not sure either; the source doesn't say much about the hairs of T. rex. I figured I'd put in whatever picture of the animal I could get.
I'm ambivalent about its usefulness. I won't be reverting if someone else decides to take it out. Ideally, some Kenyan of the future with a digital camera will read this article and climb a mountain for us.
Sasata (
talk) 05:08, 31 March 2010 (UTC)reply
I guess so. I think we'd rather hope for that Kenyan to take a photo of the animal instead of just a few hairs.
"Young animals are dark-furred, with some irregular white areas." irregular in what way? Shape?
I think so, but Hollister says nothing more than this.
"…and has the capsule of the incisor placed further to the front." I checked out the linked article to find out what this capsule was, but to no avail. What is it?
I wonder; this is what Heller writes, but I'm none too familiar with anatomical terms for Tachyoryctes. I guessed it might be the capsular process seen in rice rats (as in the bulge in
File:Oryzomys palustris mandible.png above the "8"), but I can't see that at all in the mandible of T. rex. I think I'd best leave it at this, since it's what the source has to tell.
I'd suggest inserting one of the pics available in the Mount Kenya article to show the habitat, but there's not a lot of room…
No room, I think—on my screen, the taxobox is already as long as the entire text.
not part of this review, but you might wanna add a link to this article from the Mount Kenya article in the fauna section
Done.
"A female found on October 5 had a large embryo." this sentence just seems thrown in there, with no context. Why is the date important? Why is the embryo size important? What was it large in comparison to?
It subtly suggests that their breeding season probably includes September; that it was large suggests that the pregnancy of the female had proceeded a little already. The sources have nothing more to say.
"In other chambers,[8]" I'm confused about the placement of this citation.does [8] cite the previous two sentences plus the three words shown here?
It did, but I changed it to something more logical.
"The animal eat plant roots." like what, typically?
The source doesn't say.
anything good in this?:
Title: THE MAMMALS OF THE NORTHERN SLOPES OF MT KENYA
Author(s): COE M J; FOSTER J B
Source: Journal of the East Africa Natural History Society and National Museum Volume: 131 Pages: 1-18 Published: 1972
I haven't seen it, but the Zoological Record data suggest it only concerns altitudinal distribution, which we already have. Musser and Carleton don't find it important enough to cite either, and they generally cite pertinent papers for the other Tachyoryctes. I can have a look the next time I am in the library, but don't think it should be needed for GA.
don't you want to mention that the type specimen was collected by the field naturalist
J. Alden Loring who was part of a scientific expedition to Africa along with
Theodore Roosevelt? C'mon, that's good stuff!