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tried writing to Shwartz or the Zurich museum to get a licence for an image? Or maybe go fair use? Seems like a really obscure topic to write an article on, but if we do, how can you really cover the controversy and not even show any visual representation? Even a drawing of the tail difference perhaps?
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I've specified the "records" to those of the Institute where the specimens reside. No reference says explicitly when they lived (Nowak 1999 says "many years ago"). I suspect that the time they were collected is not recorded, but in the absence of specific references, I'd prefer not to include that in
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skins are known, we have no idea what external characteristics may distinguish them (if they are distinct at all). Perhaps it has black and white stripes. However, tail length is the only allegedly diagnostic characteristic that is likely to be visible in a live animal. I don't know who Wild is; the
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Article seems deficient in not having any picture of the subject of the article (the skeletons, or a reconstruction of what the animal would look like). I realize this is tough on Wiki to get images...but just stepping back and looking at it from the reader perspective, it is a big gap. Have we
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This is more minor, but a map at the end would be helpful. Show location of countries metioned as well as Cupe. Perhaps show the range of the regular potto (is Kupe inside or outside that?) I realize, we can't draw a range map of the pseudopotto, which may not exist, but let's illustrate the
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article mentions a number of people, by name, without wikilinks, without explaining who they are or why we should care about their opinions. If I made a statement about the potto or false potto, it shouldn't be included because I know nothing about the subject... so who are Ronald Nowak, Simon
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I've added a bunch of "primatologist"s, though a bit grudgingly. Those people's opinions are important (and yours or mine is not) because they published in peer-reviewed journals, as the reference list indicates; I think it diverts attention from the topic of the article to go on about the
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The article already says that pottos occur on Mount Kupe. I don't think anything about the false potto's geography is definite enough for a map; its occurrence on Mount Kupe is just an (apparently, unfounded) rumor.
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or not. Things are complicated by the fact that there is probably more than one species of true potto. I have covered all sources I could find on it, and the article was improved by a GA review by Visionholder.
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What difference? Showing a picture of a long-tailed false potto and a short-tailed true potto would be misleading, since some pottos actually have longer tails (Sarmiento, 1998). The only published images of
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Who is C. Wild? What expertise would they have to be able to distinguish a potto from a pseudopotto in a field sighting? Is tail length the only easy field characteristic available to distinguish them?
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Did you know that the false potto may be a true potto? This African primate was described in 1996 with some fanfare, but people can't agree on whether it is in fact distinct from the
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Bearder et al? Also, "records in Zurich" sounds very odd and imprecise. Also, can we have some information about when the two specimens lived? --
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sources only give his name. I suspect it is someone who saw long-tailed pottos and got all excited about it.
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is a dab page, and I think neither meaning is appropriate here. The term is explained inline anyway.
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No. (See also the above comment). My guess would be 1950–1975 or so, but that's just a guess.
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You're quite right; I've removed that reference. Thanks for the check.
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are in Schwartz (1996), and I highly doubt we'll get those released.
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Thanks to Dweller and you for the reviews. The trouble here is that
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Subsequent comments should be made on the article's talk page or in
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link family, Simon Bearder (seems notable enough for redlink),
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professions of the biologists who worked on the animal.
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