Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Animals

Carl Linnaeus has been nominated for a good article reassessment. If you are interested in the discussion, please participate by adding your comments to the reassessment page. If concerns are not addressed during the review period, the good article status may be removed from the article. Z1720 (talk) 17:45, 15 January 2026 (UTC)

I'd like to hear anyone's thoughts here on short descriptions for notable individual animals, particularly whether the redundancy of including their species in the short description is acceptable, and secondarily if it is more appropriate to refer to a primate that is not a pet as a "pet".

I've started a discussion at the following talk page: Talk:Bubbles (chimpanzee)#short description due to my edit being disputed; the edit was changing the short description of Bubbles (chimpanzee) from "Pet once owned by Michael Jackson" to "Chimpanzee once owned by Michael Jackson" as this is more accurate as well as consistent with the guidance and other comparable articles. MossOnALog^Talk 20:07, 28 January 2026 (UTC)

Please take a look at this page with your best science eyes. That a cow can use a broom as a backscratcher is, imho for the birds. I've put a comment on the talk page there. I think this is an AI generated spoof - and quite a sophisticated one. There's no peer review of this extraordinary claim. TheListeningHandAgain (talk) 15:31, 30 January 2026 (UTC)

"Flexible use of a multi-purpose tool by a cow" was published in the peer reviewed journal Current Biology. Full reference in the article. SchreiberBike | ⌨  16:23, 30 January 2026 (UTC)

Yes I know. I am saying the article is a spoof - a cyber spoof. Do you really believe cows use backscratchers? Or more correctly one cow out of 1.5 billion? To be clear the material in the journal is correspondence - not peer reviewed, far too much weight given to the (AI) videos.TheListeningHandAgain (talk) 13:41, 31 January 2026 (UTC)

I just started this article. Anyone want to help out with it? RanDom 404 (talk) 15:48, 31 January 2026 (UTC)

There is a discussion at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Tree of Life#Inclusion criteria for List of organisms of Place about what should be included in such lists. Please contribute there. Thank you. SchreiberBike | ⌨  03:45, 4 February 2026 (UTC)

Hello! I have a question about moving pages. I noticed that Astrometis is actually a monotypic sea star genus, as the WoRMS page lists the previously disputed species as a synonym. For other pages on monotypic genera, the page is titled the genus name, so I assumed that that should be the case here. Should the page Astrometis sertulifera be moved to the Astrometis namespace? Or should it not be because there is already (a very little) content on that namespace already? Thank you in advance! Ash assists (talk) 14:30, 20 February 2026 (UTC)

The A. sertulifera article should be merged (not moved) into Astrometis. That just means copying the content of the species article to the genus article and redirecting the species. Plantdrew (talk) 16:06, 20 February 2026 (UTC)

I'm trying to bring all animal genera up to featured article status alphabetically. My first was Apororhynchus (Animalia, Acanthocephala....), and I've got 5 more. But I have trouble with this one: Mediorhynchus. There are just too many species. I was thinking a box like this? Anyone have any ideas on a good format, or which columns I should use? A second table with the measurements for each species so you can sort by sizes? Mattximus (talk) 23:44, 20 February 2026 (UTC)

Good luck when you get to Agrilus! (sorry I don't have a more helpful comment, I just thought the number of species listed there was funny) MossOnALog^Talk 00:28, 21 February 2026 (UTC)

(Funniest: Stenus: 3100+ species, according to the current Catalogue of Life download, taxonomicStatus = 'accepted') - Kweetal nl (talk) 05:07, 21 February 2026 (UTC)

More information Name, Taxonomy ...

Name	Taxonomy	Host(s) and Range	Diagnostic features
Mediorhynchus africanus Amin, Evans, Heckmann and El-Naggar, 2013[1]	The species name africanus is named for the worm's distribution across sub-Saharan Africa.[1] It is synonymous with Empodius segmentatus (de Marval, 1902) Southwell et MacFie, 1925 and Mediorhynchus selengensis Harris 1973.[2]	The Helmeted guineafowl is found in Kruger National Park (South Africa), Morocco, Nigeria and Burkina Faso. Distribution map of the Yellow-necked spurfowl	A dorsoventrally flattened, pseudo-segmented trunk bears numerous sensory pits. The proboscis is covered in 18–22 longitudinal rows of 4–6 hooks, and terminates in two conspicuous apical pores. In females, the posterior extremity is expanded and forms a dorsal, dome-shaped terminal projection situated opposite the subterminal gonopore. The eggs are comparatively large.[2]

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