Talk:Antechinus

Marsupial Mouse should probably redirect to this page
Antechinus is a very striking example of parallel evolution. But if you try to look the animal up using "marsupial mouse," which is a common phrase a person might use, it redirects to the general category "Dasyuridae," a page with a list of scientific-labeled animal-types and no actual instance of the phrase "marsupial mouse" anywhere, giving no hint of which animal is the marsupial mouse and rendering it basically a dead end. I imagine it would be much more useful if "marsupial mouse" sent the searcher directly to this page, antechinus. 72.79.76.198 (talk) 09:36, 15 February 2021 (UTC)

Male die off
Is it possible that the post-reproductive mortality in males is partially explained as a wsy to macimise resources available to pregnant females? It seems that the timing of mating is already related to maximising redource availability, and males are larger than females this could more than double resources per female, including those fertilised by the hapless males. Stub Mandrel (talk) 22:16, 19 June 2021 (UTC)

I found this Nat Geo article, about the semelparous (!) behaviour. Full of information and yes an RS. I’m short on time to make use of it in the article, thought you might be interested. No obligation of course. Sadly no mention of the name 'root rat' ;) I spent a long time talking to 2 indigenous fellers yesterday who told me all about them, and their descriptions of the anumals' behaviour tallied precisely with what is in the Nat Geo article. These guys know about the land and the animals on it; not once did they use the name antechinus.   Boscaswell   talk  19:28, 5 June 2022 (UTC)