Talk:Collared brown lemur

Major revision: re-write

Today I completely re-wrote the article. Feel free to make revisions as needed. Also watch for new research articles on this species. –Visionholder (talk) 23:24, 28 January 2009 (UTC)

Unsolicited lit survey

More scholarly sources to pad this article. There's also a lot of conference abstracts, but I didn't list those. Sasata (talk) 19:56, 26 February 2010 (UTC)

Title: Proximate and ultimate determinants of cathemeral activity in brown lemurs

Author(s): Donati, Giuseppe; Baldi, Nicoletta; Morelli, Valentina, et al.

Source: Animal Behaviour Volume: 77 Issue: 2 Pages: 317-325 Published: FEB 2009

Title: Habitat use and social structure of a brown lemur hybrid population in the Berenty Reserve, Madagascar

Author(s): Tanaka, M

Source: AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PRIMATOLOGY Volume: 69 Pages: 1189-1194 Published: 2007

Title: Feeding over the 24-h cycle: dietary flexibility of cathemeral collared lemurs (Eulemur collaris)

Author(s): Donati, G; Bollen, A; Borgognini-Tarli, SM, et al.

Source: BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY AND SOCIOBIOLOGY Volume: 61 Issue: 8 Pages: 1237-1251 Published: JUN 2007

Title: Environmental and phylogenetic correlates of Eulemur behavior and ecology (Primates : Lemuridae)

Author(s): Ossi, K; Kamilar, JM

Source: BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY AND SOCIOBIOLOGY Volume: 61 Issue: 1 Pages: 53-64 Published: NOV 2006

Title: Relations between fruits and disperser assemblages in a Malagasy littoral forest: a community-level approach

Author(s): Bollen, A; Van Elsacker, L; Ganzhorn, JU

Source: JOURNAL OF TROPICAL ECOLOGY Volume: 20 Pages: 599-612 Part: 6 Published: NOV 2004

Title: Tree dispersal strategies in the littoral forest of Sainte Luce (SE-Madagascar)

Author(s): Bollen, A; Van Elsacker, L; Ganzhorn, JU

Source: OECOLOGIA Volume: 139 Issue: 4 Pages: 604-616 Published: MAY 2004

Title: Biogeography of lemurs in the humid forests of Madagascar: the role of elevational distribution and rivers

Author(s): Goodman, SM; Ganzhorn, JU

Source: JOURNAL OF BIOGEOGRAPHY Volume: 31 Issue: 1 Pages: 47-55 Published: 2004

As with the Gray Mouse Lemur, I think that almost all of these articles are looking at this species as a model organism for the many true lemur species, especially since its range is located within a day's drive of Berenty Private Reserve, one of the major research locations in southern Madagascar. However, I'm sure I can pull some interesting tidbits and sprinkle them into the article. Otherwise, the gory details will probably be reserved for the upcoming re-write of True lemur. I hope you agree. – VisionHolder « talk » 20:22, 26 February 2010 (UTC)

GA Review

This review is transcluded from Talk:Collared Brown Lemur/GA1. The edit link for this section can be used to add comments to the review.

Reviewer: Miyagawa (talk) 21:50, 12 March 2010 (UTC)

Had a decent read through of the article, prose quality is good and engaging.

• A line needs to be added to the lead paragraph to summarise the Conversation status section. All other sections already have a mention.

• "the Collared Brown Lemur was promoted to full species status in 2001" - by who?

• I appreciate that information is limited, but is there any information on natural predators?

Overall a very nice job on a species where information is not readily available. Miyagawa (talk) 21:50, 12 March 2010 (UTC)

Thank you for the comments. I have fixed the first 2 issues, and after reviewing the newer lemur books I have recently acquired, as well as searching the literature on Google Scholar, I have not been able to find anything specific to this species. I guess I could mention general lemur predators, but otherwise this apparently has not been studied in this species. – VisionHolder « talk » 00:49, 13 March 2010 (UTC)

No problem, if the information isn't available, then it isn't available.

GA review (see here for criteria)

1. It is reasonably well written.

   a (prose): b (MoS):

2. It is factually accurate and verifiable.

   a (references): b (citations to reliable sources): c (OR):

3. It is broad in its coverage.

   a (major aspects): b (focused):

4. It follows the neutral point of view policy.

   Fair representation without bias:

5. It is stable.

   No edit wars, etc.:

6. It is illustrated by images, where possible and appropriate.

   a (images are tagged and non-free images have fair use rationales): b (appropriate use with suitable captions):

7. Overall:

   Pass/Fail:

Good job with the article. :) Miyagawa (talk) 21:16, 13 March 2010 (UTC)

Pre-FAC review

The following comments are based on a quick read through. I'll look more closely later. Sasata (talk) 17:35, 15 March 2010 (UTC)

• is it necessary to put the year of the drawing in the taxobox image?
• wlink vulnerable species
• range map?
• please give more details on who originally described the species (& who he was), what publication it was in, a link to the prologue if available online
• link subspecies
• "…the Collared Brown Lemur was promoted to full species status in 2001 by biological anthropologist Colin Groves." details? What were his justifications for doing so?
• "An adult Collared Brown Lemur can reach a head-body length of 39 and 40 cm" need the word "between" in there and other later examples
• link rufous; "Eyes" data in table not capitalized unlike others
• why is the section name "Anatomy and physiology" when physiology is not discussed?
• any more info for this section? length/weight of newborns? Lifespan? Age of sexual maturity? I know info is sparse but surely there must be something more than coloration and length/weight
• Do these lemurs get parasites?
• "Females of these two species are nearly indistinguishable, despite that genetic analyses support full species status for both taxa." what kind of genetic analyses?
• "The Collared Brown Lemur was listed as Vulnerable (VU A2cd)" is the parenthetical part vital information?
• "A small group of Collared Brown Lemurs was introduced in the 1980s into the Berenty Private Reserve…" details… who did this and why?
• refs: pp for page ranges