Talk:Pink salmon

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Removed a reference to 1000 billion to 2000 billion eggs being laid by a single female. I assume this is vandalism or confusion... based on other salmonids I left it at 1000 to 2000 eggs, although I don't have a cite for this. CredoFromStart 16:28, 20 April 2007 (UTC)

antipredator acid
I removed the sentence regarding acid being released from some sort of groove in the salmon's back, which I do not believe is true. If a citation can be provided, please re-insert it.SlickWilson 00:38, 9 May 2007 (UTC)

What do pink salmon eat?
What do pink salmon eat? 75.185.66.16 17:53, 11 June 2007 (UTC)

Parental Care
I added a section on parental care, and why it has evolved as such. VAleles (talk) 02:38, 18 September 2013 (UTC)


 * That section is ridiculous, irrelevant and should go away. Senor Cuete (talk) 15:28, 20 April 2014 (UTC)


 * User:Epipelagic reverted my deletion of the Parental care section, asking me to discuss it here. He called me "crass" and questioned whether I have a coherent reason for making the edit. Apparently he didn't read this page or he would know that I gave my reasons for the removal two weeks in advance. How crass. Since he demanded that I discuss this, I'll do so further. Salmon don't do any parental care as one would understand it; They spawn and then die. You would have to severely misinterpret what parental care is to think that this is it. The first paragraph might make sense in some textbook about parental care in animals but has nothing to do with salmon. The fact that female salmon defend their nests from other fish but males don't an amazing factoid but it's NOT parental care. In any case they die almost immediately after spawning when the eggs are still in the gravel. Wikipedia discourages personal attacks like calling me "crass". This section also lacks adequate references. Perhaps some other contributor would like to weigh in on this. Nobody disagreed with my proposed edit. Now User:Epipelagic is complaining. Maybe he should defend the offending section and tell us why it makes sense to include it. Senor Cuete (talk) 01:15, 6 May 2014 (UTC)


 * There was no personal attack. It was the deletion and the edit summary that accompanied it that was crass. As are the comments above, which contain nothing that would warrant a considered reply. However you might pass an eye over the considerable academic literature which disagrees with you, such as here and here. --Epipelagic (talk) 05:38, 6 May 2014 (UTC)


 * There was no personal attack except the personal attack and this one. I looked at the links you provide and I can't convince myself that these really qualify as anything a reasonable person would understand to be parental care. Senor Cuete (talk) 15:16, 6 May 2014 (UTC)


 * Another editor has completely deleted the ridiculous parental care section. It should go. Senor Cuete (talk) 15:26, 3 August 2014 (UTC)

This is silly. It has been deleted many times. Epipelagic is engaged in an edit was. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.26.235.40 (talk) 15:17, 22 June 2015 (UTC)

This has now been removes six times by various editors. This is about parental care and could be in an article about that, but since it's not about Pink Salmon, it SHOULD be deleted. I suggest a compromise: Just the sentence that describes the fact that only female pink salmon defend the nest should remain. Senor Cuete (talk) 13:51, 18 October 2015 (UTC)


 * Thank you. Now you have read something about the issue, stopped your attacks, and said something that makes sense. In the interests of compromise I will add the more general material to salmon. I suggest you see if you can reinstate the part about female pink salmon (which you agree yourself you should not have removed) in a form that does justice to the issue and will stop you edit warring. --Epipelagic (talk) 19:48, 18 October 2015 (UTC)


 * The description of the females defending the nest is already covered in the Reproduction section, so no further action is required. Senor Cuete (talk) 22:27, 18 October 2015 (UTC)

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