User:DeonDischer/sandbox

Article Evaluation

I reviewed the article "talking birds".

While reviewing the article, it proved to be both interesting and informative. The entire article related to the topic of talking birds, with only one section seemingly out of place. The "in fiction" section at the end talked about birds that spoke in various books and written literature. It did technically relate to the topic, but probably could have been left out and the article still would have felt complete. The article was however, neutral. It did not weigh heavily on either "nature" or "nurture" and spoke a little on both sides, recognizing both the evolutionary and learning aspects of bird mimicing and vocabulary. The article contains many different subsections, each with a little bit of information about various topics relating to the overall article. More information on some of these subjects, such as the various species that possess the ability to talk, would probably make the article a little more rounded out. I checked 5 random citations while reading the article, and one of these links did not work.There are 55 sources cited, and if only 5 were tested, this shows 1/11th were faulty, and therefore the entire article show probably be reviewed for proper working links. All of the links checked, did however relate to the topic and were not "random" links. There were a couple sections that did not possess adequate referencing, including the "function" section and the the "in fiction" section. The "in fiction" section listed various books and written works that apparently possessed talking birds, but only one of the mentioned works was cited properly. This gave it the feeling that it was written by one person, and not checked by many. The "function" section listed various potential reasoning's as to why birds talk, but not all of these were properly cited and therefore showed a little bit of bias in the writing. The links that were cited, however, all seemed to be accurate and appropriate,so this article just needs to be further edited for proper citations. Because of the articles lack of proper citation, it is rated by wikipedia as a "start" class article, and could use further editing and resource contribution, although it is certainly developing into a complete article. It is part of Wikiproject Birds, but is on the radar as being of "low importance", and only advanced from "stub" to "start" class in 2013, where it has stayed to this day. This article leaves a lot to be desired in many aspects, but also proves to be an excellent start on a very interesting topic.DeonDischer (talk) 14:55, 24 September 2017 (UTC)

Week 4 Edited page "Vacuum activity" - added a citation

Squirrels that have lived in metal cages without bedding all their lives do all the actions that a wild squirrel does when burying a nut. It scratches at the metal floor as if digging a hole, it acts as if it were taking a nut to the place where it scratched though there is no nut, then it pats the metal floor as if covering an imaginary buried nut. [5]

Week 5 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bunting_(animal_behavior) - Bunting Bevahiour - there is hardly any information on this topic, so would expand to create a more full article

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Growling - This article barely has a paragraph, so would expand this as well.

Week 6 I chose "Growling"for my article, and there is next to nothing on this page so I will work to add some more detail to the overall article. Below is a list of sources i will begin working on combing through as to further develop my article. -http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1439-0310.2009.01681.x/full -http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1095-8649.2000.tb02200.x/full -http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/jez.1402600302/full -http://www.sciencedirect.com.qe2a-proxy.mun.ca/science/article/pii/S0168159113001871 -http://www.cliniciansbrief.com/sites/default/files/attachments/Growling%20in%20Dogs.pdf u77 -http://rsos.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/4/5/170134 -Some of the improvements I will make include a brief functional description of the growl in different species, as well as various ways that it is used. Some examples have been provided but I will expand on these in greater detail so it is evident exactly how the vocalization is used.

Growling in Dogs -can be used playfully or aggressively -humans unable to tell difference when growl isolated, large dogs perceived to be more aggressive -when growl from dog directly, human able to distinguish growl type (longer growl = more aggressive).

Growling for Food Protection -food protection elicits a longer growl from dogs -fish(gunards) who growl when they attempt to grasp fish have a higher chance of success than silent fish -growling in gunards gives an advantage when there are limited food resources

Playful growling -dogs communicate size via growling Clc352 (talk) 21:19, 23 October 2017 (UTC)This seems like an interesting article to expand upon and there's definitely lots of research done on this topic! The existing article has no citations however, so will you be using the articles you found to cite the existing information? Clc352 (talk) 21:19, 23 October 2017 (UTC)Will you be discussing growling in species other than canines? Hippos and badgers growl, that could be interesting! Clc352 (talk) 21:19, 23 October 2017 (UTC)Growling in dogs is done for intimidation, playfulness, and communication. What are some other reasons animals may growl? Clc352 (talk) 21:19, 23 October 2017 (UTC)Dr. Wilson spoke about growling as an intention movement, maybe you can include this in a part of you lead section? Something to consider! Clc352 (talk) 21:19, 23 October 2017 (UTC)Overall, I think your outline is great!