Talk:Leptictidium

=Walking With Beasts=

Did the BBC edit this page to advertise Walking With Beasts? Hotdamn. I love and I mean, LOVE the Walking With Series and all, but let's not turn this into a page about the 'New Dawn' episode, alright? I'm going to shorten the part on behavior, because a fictionalized description of the animal is not a good source on animal behavior now, is it? Let's shorten Leptictidium in popular culture too, because this is ridiculously long, it's more or less a summary of the whole episode.Seeofseaof (talk) 13:27, 23 May 2009 (UTC)

Are they omnivores, as claimed here, or actually carnivores? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 174.70.58.119 (talk) 16:26, 28 June 2010 (UTC)

The claim for omnivory only lists animals and no plants. Also, that 'Walking with Beasts' is listed as the source doesn't create confidence. RobotBoy66 (talk) 08:54, 4 April 2023 (UTC)


 * I deleted that part. It was a reasonable guess, and of course a TV show has to make guesses. But it is irrelevant and irresponsible for an encyclopedic article. Leptictids were not even particularly closely related to elephant shrews (sengis) – probably they weren't even placentals in the strict sense! David Marjanović (talk) 20:38, 22 September 2019 (UTC)

Giant pangolins "completely" bipedal?
This article states that "together with macropods, giant pangolins, and humans, they [leptictidium] are the only known completely bipedal mammals". However, the giant pangolin article says, "By using its tail for balance, it will often walk upright as a biped." Now, that doesn't sound like a completely bipedal mammal to me. Can someone in the know clear this up and correct the article that's in error? Tigercompanion25 (talk) 19:28, 2 June 2015 (UTC)

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Reproduction
I deleted the following paragraph:

"However, the presence of epipubic bones suggests that, like marsupials and monotremes (as well as most other non-placental mammals), they instead gave birth to larval young."

So, first, monotremes lay eggs. But that's just bad wording; the size of the eggs is indeed restricted by the epipubic bones. Second, however, the cited paper describes the zalambdalestid Zalambdalestes and the asioryctithere Ukhaatherium, which have epipubic bones but aren't leptictidans by any stretch of the imagination. If anybody knows of evidence of epipubic bones in any leptictidan, please come forward, because that would be important! David Marjanović (talk) 20:43, 22 September 2019 (UTC)

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