Talk:Oriental fire-bellied toad

Student Review
When discussing behavior, the entry provides a sufficient introduction on the frog’s communication, specifically calling signals, and predator-prey interactions. In addition to the description of the frog’s toxicity, both communication and predator-prey interactions are well organized and provide a potential insight into the frog’s breeding and defense mechanism for survival. Particular behaviors of interest include males spacing out their vocalizations to attract females and frogs displaying bright coloration, most likely a form of aposematism, to warn predators of toxicity. In the context of behavior, the frog entry is missing a thorough discussion on resource competition, grouping, and parental care and each should be included into the entry. Incorporating resource competition would give readers insight into how the frog adopts aggressive and competitive behaviors during limitations on mates or food while incorporating grouping would provide insight into the tradeoffs between the frog living either independently or dependently in an environment. Incorporating parental care would help provide insight into potential conflicts between parents and siblings after mating and reproduction. After reviewing the talk section, the entry does appear to represent a ‘good article’ status given its effective organization and evident broad coverage of the frog’s behavior, habitat, and skin coloration. The entry also appears to show an adequate number of citations and independent references throughout. With respect to the entry’s importance, a ‘low class’ importance seems reasonable since the entry describes a very specific type of frog that may be unfamiliar among amphibians.--Hoonji2022 (talk) 04:35, 23 September 2022 (UTC)

include map of distribution
Hi, I think it would be helpful to include a map of where the habitats and distributions mainly are. It would also be helpful to know the lifespan in nature and reproductive cycle of the species because the entry only mentioned lifespan in captivity. - Emily486103 (talk) 17:32, 21 September 2022 (UTC)

Toad
Even though it is called a "toad", this species is in order Anura and not in family Bufonidae - so it is properly a frog. Strictly speaking, there isn't a scientific meaning to the word 'toad'. I made an addition to clarify this, because the article formerly just said that B. orientalis was a kind of toad. --Leperflesh 23:24, 28 July 2006 (UTC)

Captive keeping advice
Captive keeping advice has crept into almost every other section, and there are a couple of questionable assertions made. I'm going to do a cleanup, mostly moving captive-keeping stuff to the appropriate section.

I'm removing the following thing about their poop, because I've been keeping them for years and I've never seen this. If it is true and a citation can be made, feel free to add it back in... in the captive keeping section, not the intro.
 * "Its fecal matter is also a bark brown color that is enveloped in something that resembled a skin and it is possible for the "capsule of sorts" to be gently removes if pierced the waste matter will quickly disperse in the water, this shouldn't be a problem if you have a filtration system."

--Leperflesh (talk) 22:04, 25 August 2008 (UTC)

Missing infos
An anonymous username, not my real name I think this article probably needs Habitat and Conservation status sections, especially in GAN. 2001:4455:1A9:E100:58ED:9A2:3A1A:9A5C (talk) 04:13, 2 January 2022 (UTC)
 * I'll do a Habitat section if I get a chance, but I think a Conservation status section for a Least Concern species that is extremely common in captivity is probably unnecessary. Thank you for your advice. An anonymous username, not my real name (talk) 04:17, 2 January 2022 (UTC)
 * An anonymous username, not my real name It also doesn't have Taxonomy section. They'll probably gonna recommend you on GAN to expand it including the lead, just like mine. Goodluck and Happy New Year! 2001:4455:1A9:E100:58ED:9A2:3A1A:9A5C (talk) 04:22, 2 January 2022 (UTC)
 * Okay, I'll work on that. Happy New Year to you as well! An anonymous username, not my real name (talk) 04:28, 2 January 2022 (UTC)


 * An anonymous username, not my real name I did some of the photos at the article. Congrats to your first GA article. I believe you can do more if only you can go further. :) 2001:4455:1A9:E100:1039:C4D2:8092:F4BC (talk) 23:11, 9 January 2022 (UTC)

Review
1.	The strength of this entry is the organization of the information and the extensive coverage of the content. I like how the article made good use of the subcategories to give readers a better overview of the article and facilitated the process of searching specific topics within the entry. Also, the entry covers a lot of topics in a well-written manner. The most interesting thing I learned from the article is that the Oriental fire-bellied toad does not have an eardrum or resonator, and it makes its calls by inhaling.

2.	Categories

a.	Home range and territoriality – This entry already covers a lot of the categories mentioned in the outline, but it does cover this category much in the entry. I think information related to male defense of places likely to attract females, home range of the organism, and migration would be a good addition to the article.

b.	Parental Care – In the “Breeding” subcategory, the entry covers the mating and breeding process, but there is not much information about parental care, such as oviposition, egg guarding, tadpole transport, and feeding young. I think adding this category/subcategory would be a good way to expand the article since the “Breeding” subcategory briefly mentions about the site selection for egg laying.

c.	Enemies – The entry already has a “Predation” subcategory talking about the predators. However, adding the “Enemies” category and including information about predators, parasites, diseases, and immunity as a separate category would be a good addition. I think that if this toad has a specific disease that is more susceptible than others, it would definitely be an interesting topic to cover.

3.	The talk page of this article is a good example of collaboration in giving proper feedback and making changes accordingly to improve the quality of an article, ultimately creating a good article. For instance, the “Missing infos” comment mentioned that the “Habitat,” “Conservation status,” and “Taxonomy” sections should be added, and currently the article has all of these sections. I think the talk page was very active in improving the article, and I think it really aligns with this current assignment. --Turturenhydra (talk) 23:53, 22 September 2022