User:Guadgamero/Evaluate an Article

Which article are you evaluating?
Mating call

Why you have chosen this article to evaluate?
I thought there might be some speculation on human mating calls, or humans' lack of one. But, upon seeing it encompassed the broad topic of mating calls among all animals, I thought it might be interesting to evaluate.

Evaluate the article
The first sentence immediately states what a mating call is, differentiating it from any other animal sounds. The lead does mention examples of what species do this, as well as which kinds of animals (all) and which sexes typically make the call. In those examples it mentions that mating calls can be produced different ways. Overall, a solid lead.

Given that bird calls seem to be more complex and more researched, more space seems to be dedicated to them than other animals under the vocalization section. The others, mammals, amphibians, and insects, have a similar amount of dedicated space and give examples of species' vocalizations and purpose.

The mechanical calls section describes it as using bodies to produce a call and has similar enough spaces dedicated for each animal. In terms of missing something, I would've thought an explanation of why humans don't have mating calls would be included.

Nothing appears to be biased, but perhaps my eyes aren't trained to passive biases from animal experts. All information seems to be presented as is, nothing in the tone indicates favoritism towards a certain species for their usage of calls.

The most recent sources are from 2013, with one on ultrasound mating calls being from 2015. I'm unsure if that is recent enough for animal studies, but I trust that no major changes have occurred within animal mating behaviors. At most, perhaps our understanding of their behaviors has changed. But, a handful of edits from 2021 suggest it has remained stable. Among the links I checked, they all worked.

The talk page is a bit hard to look at but this page is a part of 3 wiki projects, C-class in all of them.

The article is clearly split into two types of mating calls, and clearly split into types of animals within those.

A couple of photos are just labeled as the species name, while others are labeled with what mood an animal is in or what they're doing. Perhaps more pictures of animals doing their calls would be more appropriate rather than just the animal existing.