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I know from three specimens there's probably insufficient data, but is there any information on breeding habits and lifespan? This links to the point above; the three most important things in life are sex, death and food (order according to personal preference), and IMO as a consequence mating habits
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I appreciate with only three specimens the answer is probably "we don't know" to a lot of questions, but do we have any idea what they eat? Assume the reader is going to come from this via TFA rather than the parent pages, and their prior rat-knowledge will only be "like a mouse but bigger"; does
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Does Reid say why he thinks that the species is semiaquatic; does it have any adaptations (webbed toes or the like) or is it based just on related species behaviour? Either way, that sentence is probably worth expanding on, as "swimming rat" is probably going to seem an unusual concept to people
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That bugged me too. I have reported what the IUCN has to say about it and really I can't do more. What I think is going on is that it occurs in an area that has not been surveyed by biologists a lot, but that is well-preserved; therefore, its population is probably large and its habitat is not
833:"After examining the only known specimen in London" Unclear: was it the only specimen in London (i.e., there were other specimens elsewhere), or the only specimen at all, and in London? "… Hershkovitz instead placed the species" Instead of what - tenuous connection to previous paragraph
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with the proviso that I'm taking all the information on faith as I know nothing about the subject. While none of these are deal-breakers with their absence, a few things I'd expect to see in a biology article, and think ought to be mentioned should the information
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As you anticipated, the answer is "we don't know"; I have reported all the biological knowledge we have of it. I suppose I could say that "we don't know this and we don't know that", but any such list would necessarily exclude other things we don't
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Another rare rice rat, from
Nicaragua this time. It's only been caught three times, so there is not much to tell, but I believe this article has all information that has been published about it. I am looking forward to your reviews.
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That's the correct translation, as far as I know. The problem here is that no source explicitly gives an etymology for the specific name; Thomas probably meant that it was less than half as large as any previously known species of
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Gardner and Patton, J. Hernández-Camacho, Robert Voss, Hugh
Genoways and Knox Jones, Fiona Reid, Marcelo Weksler… who are these people? Are they worth redlinks? Please be consistent in using full first name or initials
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Thanks—I'll probably expand it in a few days; I think we're doing injustice to him by only calling him a prominent primatologist. He also did important work on rodents, marsupials, and lots of other mammals.
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The final thing I have trouble understanding is how a species known from only three specimens is classified as "least concern". I think it would be good to have a bit more of an explanation in the
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She (not he, small matter) doesn't, and there's nothing else I can say without veering into OR. There are three good reasons to think it is semiaquatic: all three were found near water; all other
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are semiaquatic—more precisely, all well-known species are and all others are presumed to be; and the features of the hindfeet listed in "Description" are all adaptations to life in the water.
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Stupid question to which I'll guess the answer is "no", but are there any pictures available? It seems a bit jarring to illustrate an article on one species with a picture of another. –
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I linked some that are definitely notable. The full first name of Hernández-Camacho is not in the sources; I don't think there are other inconsistencies. Thanks for the review.
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All three specimens were caught near water and the species may be semiaquatic, spending some time in the water. Its conservation status is currently assessed as "least concern".
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I guess it looks a little odd and my preference is small 'p' as the 'p's are not occurring in a sentence, but I do not see this as any sort of dealbreaker by any means.
593:. Coming from reviewing bird articles it looks odd, though I can guess it is because rodents are largely hidden. Still, plenty of Australian species are threatened....
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Did it? I can't find it there. I've probably been inconsistent with this, but can't see a good reason not to cap and link, so I did that.
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somewhere near the start ("half-sized rice rat", I think, but my Latin is 25 years out of date and I never was too hot with it then). –
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