Talk:Mount Oku rat
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mount Oku Rat
editTHE MOUNT OKU RAT The Mount Oku rat is a species of rodent in the family Muridae. It is a species of rodents found only in Cameroon. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist Montane forest. The Montane forest in which this rodent is found is in on Mount Oku in the North West region of Cameroon. It is threatened by habitat loss. SCIENTIFIC CLASSIFICATION Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Mammalia Order: Rodentia Family: Muridae Genus: Lamottemys Species: Lamottemys okuensis The name Muridae comes from the Latin Mus (genitive muris), meaning “mouse” HABITAT Murids are found nearly everywhere in the world. Some subfamilies however have narrower ranges. They are not found in many oceanic islands and Antarctica. The Mount Oku rat is the only species from the family Muridae found only in Cameroon and in Oku precisely. They have excellent senses of hearing and smell. They are very good climbers and that can be seen on how they climb up and down trees at mount oku DIET AND DENTITION The Mount Oku rat is an omnivore. It feeds on little plants and animal matter. The Mount Oku rat has sciurognathous jaws and a diastema too. They lack canines and premolars hence feed on small animal and plant matter. However molars exist. They have powerful jaw muscles and gnawing incisors that grow throughout life. The dental formula of murids is 1.0.0.1-3
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The Mount Oku Rat has a number of unique traits and characters. It gathers small stones (pebble) in from of its nitch (burrow). The pebbles are left night so dew can be gathered. In the morning, the Mount Oku rat then drinks the dew on the pebbles. This is a clever move from the Rat. After that it retires and gets into its burrow and the cycle continues. REPRODUCTION The Mount Oku Rat reach the age of breeding at about 6 to 8 weeks. Pregnancy lasts for around 20 days and the litter of about three young is born blind and hairless as a good majority of rodents are. It takes about 14 days for the eyes to be opened and weaning is completed after about 28 days. Personally, I have not been able to study the complete lifespan of the Mount Oku Rat but its presumed to live for about 2 years on its own. Ngala Maimo (talk)
- The following is an archived discussion of the DYK nomination of the article below. Please do not modify this page. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as this nomination's talk page, the article's talk page or Wikipedia talk:Did you know), unless there is consensus to re-open the discussion at this page. No further edits should be made to this page.
The result was: promoted by ___CAPTAIN MEDUSAtalk 12:35, 6 July 2019 (UTC)
Mount Oku rat, Mittendorf's striped grass mouse
... that the Mount Oku rat inhabits forests on a single mountain and is "endangered" by habitat destruction while the Mittendorf's striped grass mouse, living higher on the same mountain, is of "least concern"?
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5x expanded by Cwmhiraeth (talk). Self-nominated at 06:20, 30 May 2019 (UTC).
Articles are both expanded enough, new enough in the expansion time and have no outstanding tags on the pages. The articles are neutral, with no copyvio issues. The hook facts are sourced in the articles and verified in the sources. The hook is a bit unwieldy, could it be restructured slightly to reduce the length?--Kevmin § 17:08, 24 June 2019 (UTC)
- @Kevmin: Thank you for the review. How about ALT1? Cwmhiraeth (talk) 20:10, 24 June 2019 (UTC)
- ALT1 ... that although living on the same mountain, the Mount Oku rat is endangered by habitat destruction while the Mittendorf's striped grass mouse is not?
- @Cwmhiraeth: Much more concise, I like it. Do we need the scare quotes around endangered?--Kevmin § 00:04, 25 June 2019 (UTC)
- @Kevmin: I have removed them, and struck the original hook. Cwmhiraeth (talk) 05:02, 25 June 2019 (UTC)
No other issues found, articles look good to go.--Kevmin § 12:50, 25 June 2019 (UTC)
