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71: 53: 22: 81: 743:, which covers reproduction in general, including asexual reproduction, nesting and brooding behaviours, the nurture and protection of the young and the many other strategies that lead to reproductive success but are only incidentally sexual, if sexual at all. A navigation template should be focused either on "sexual behaviour" or on "reproduction", and not muddy the water with the term "sexual reproduction". -- 180: 739:- "Animal sexual behavior" not only included topics that "Sexual reproduction in animals" would not, as Flyer and BarrelProof point out, but "Sexual reproduction in animals" would include, in a confusing way, many topics that "Animal sexual behavior" would not. What is needed is a separate additional template, 431:
sexually reproducing animal has sexual behavior, and I think there should be discussion on the scope and purpose of this navigation box (e.g. what articles should it be placed in, and what are clear inclusion criteria?). Now that it is a navbox rather thana sidebar, its placement in the middle of
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reproductive modes (compared to related species) should be included. That is, if closely related species differ primarily only in age at reproduction or clutch size (such as the rhino species) they may not warrant individual entries, but notable departures (such as the unique female anatomy of
662:– This template relates not just to sexual behaviour, but it's clear that it also contains information about reproductive anatomy and physiology -- in fact it serves as a navbox for almost all such articles. It would be good therefore to rename it to a clearer title. 436:). Further, is there any logical reason to expect that someone reading about elephant sex would want to navigate to a section (not an article) on short-beaked echidna sex? The current scope of this template is too large and arbitrary to be practical. Per the 398:
I've recently added links to general topics (under the heading "Mating systems"), and expanded bird, fish, and herps. I still believe the mammal section can be selectively pruned to achieve more equitable balance, and invertebrates are for now still
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guidelines rather than reduce the scope or have two partially overlapping templates. Per the discussion I tried to have above, we should focus the template only on full articles, not arbitrary sections of this or that animal.
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created the template, I'm interested in his or her thoughts on the issue, as well as anyone else's. I hate to say it, but this template may collapse under its own weight and be better off scrapped unless properly thought out.
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Spotted hyenas compared to brown hyenas) may be more informative to highlight. In this way, the diversity of Animal Sexual Behavior can be made more visible, rather than becoming a cluttered dustbin for animal factoids.
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that the move would be changing, and limiting, the scope. And if it's decided that both Template:Animal sexual behavior and Template:Sexual reproduction in animals are needed, I don't think that both are needed.
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I don't like it as a side navbox, it will interefere with the articles where it is placed and create drama wars. It would be better set up as a bottom navbox, and one that is collapsable.
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Well, as I suspected (see above), this is approaching an arbitrary, indiscriminate list, and becoming ever more mammal-centric, and I apologize if my additions contributed to the mess.
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should probably be clearly defined, lest it become unwieldly clogged with arbitrary links to every conceivable animal's paragraph on reproduction. Some suggestions:
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Perhaps species-level links should be omitted, with only general links to reproduction discussion of family-level or higher taxa , e.g. only
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Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. Editors desiring to contest the closing decision should consider a
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Perhaps only full article level links should be included (e.g. no links to "MyFavoriteAnimal#Reproduction"). Examples include
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instead of arbitrary inclusion of Gray wolf, Golden jackal, Domestic dog, Red fox... (why no Raccoon dog or Gray fox??)
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Navigation templates are particularly useful for a small, well-defined group of articles
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Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on this talk page or in a
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This template would be much easier to navigate if it were converted into a
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offer additional tips for how navigation templates should and should
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A discussion about this template and related topics can be found at
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I think it would be reasonable to convert this template into an
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For this template to have maximum practicality, the scope and
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The above discussion is preserved as an archive of a
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