User:Maky/Achievements

Today's Featured Article (TFA):


 * Today's featured article request.png Ruffed lemur →16 March 2010
 * Today's featured article request.png Lemur →25 December 2010
 * Today's featured article request.png Evolution of lemurs →22 February 2011
 * Today's featured article request.png Thomcord →17 April 2011
 * Today's featured article request.png Fossa (animal) →30 April 2011
 * Today's featured article request.png Marojejy National Park →12 October 2011
 * Today's featured article request.png Ring-tailed lemur →22 March 2012
 * Today's featured article request.png Gray mouse lemur →13 August 2012
 * Today's featured article request.png Toothcomb →27 September 2012
 * Today's featured article request.png Conservation of slow lorises →21 November 2012
 * Today's featured article request.png Golden-crowned sifaka →30 June 2013


 * Today's featured article request.png Lemurs of Madagascar (book) →30 January 2014
 * Today's featured article request.png Slow loris →10 December 2014
 * Today's featured article request.png Marcus Ward Lyon Jr. →5 February 2015
 * Today's featured article request.png Javan slow loris →3 May 2015
 * Today's featured article request.png Silky sifaka →11 October 2015
 * Today's featured article request.png Seacology →26 June 2016
 * Today's featured article request.png Strepsirrhini →20 December 2016
 * Today's featured article request.png Fork-marked lemur →11 October 2017
 * Today's featured article request.png Subfossil lemur →29 April 2018
 * Today's featured article request.png Babakotia →6 September 2018
 * Today's featured article request.png Mesopropithecus →11 November 2018

Today's Featured List (TFL):
 * The World's 25 Most Endangered Primates →1 October 2012

Media of the day (WikiCommons):
 * Commons-logo-en.svg File:Lemur catta - scent marking 01.ogv →6 January 2011

Four Awards: (details)


 * Four Award.svg Babakotia
 * Four Award.svg Conservation of slow lorises
 * Four Award.svg Evolution of lemurs
 * Four Award.svg Javan slow loris
 * Four Award.svg Lemurs of Madagascar (book)


 * Four Award.svg Marcus Ward Lyon Jr.
 * Four Award.svg Mesopropithecus
 * Four Award.svg Subfossil lemur
 * Four Award.svg Thomcord

Featured Articles (FA):


 * Archaeoindris
 * Babakotia
 * Conservation of slow lorises
 * Cryptoprocta spelea
 * Evolution of lemurs
 * Fork-marked lemur
 * Fossa (animal)
 * Giant mouse lemur
 * Golden-crowned sifaka
 * Gray mouse lemur
 * Javan slow loris
 * Lemur
 * Lemurs of Madagascar (book)
 * Marcus Ward Lyon Jr.


 * Marojejy National Park
 * Mesopropithecus
 * Ring-tailed lemur
 * Ruffed lemur
 * Seacology
 * Silky sifaka
 * Slow loris
 * Small-toothed sportive lemur
 * Strepsirrhini
 * Subfossil lemur
 * Taxonomy of lemurs
 * Thomcord
 * Toothcomb

Featured Lists (FL):
 * List of lemur species
 * The World's 25 Most Endangered Primates

Good Articles (GA):


 * Symbol support vote.svg Afrasia djijidae
 * Symbol star FA GA.svg Archaeoindris
 * Symbol star FA GA.svg Babakotia
 * Symbol support vote.svg Bengal slow loris
 * Symbol support vote.svg Bornean slow loris
 * Symbol support vote.svg Collared brown lemur
 * Symbol star FA GA.svg Conservation of slow lorises
 * Symbol support vote.svg Dareka no Manazashi
 * Symbol star FA GA.svg Fork-marked lemur
 * Symbol star FA GA.svg Fossa (animal)
 * Symbol support vote.svg The Garden of Words
 * Symbol star FA GA.svg Giant mouse lemur
 * Symbol star FA GA.svg Golden-crowned sifaka
 * Symbol star FA GA.svg Gray mouse lemur
 * Symbol support vote.svg Hadropithecus
 * Symbol support vote.svg Hoollongapar Gibbon Sanctuary
 * Symbol support vote.svg Hotarubi no Mori e
 * Symbol star FA GA.svg Javan slow loris
 * Symbol star FA GA.svg Lemur
 * Symbol support vote.svg Lemurs' Park
 * Symbol star FA GA.svg Evolution of lemurs
 * Symbol star FA GA.svg Lemurs of Madagascar (book)


 * Symbol star FA GA.svg Marcus Ward Lyon Jr.
 * Symbol star FA GA.svg Marojejy National Park
 * Symbol star FA GA.svg Mesopropithecus
 * Symbol support vote.svg Nycticebus kayan
 * Symbol support vote.svg Pachylemur
 * Symbol support vote.svg Pygmy slow loris
 * Symbol star FA GA.svg Ring-tailed lemur
 * Symbol star FA GA.svg Ruffed lemur
 * Symbol support vote.svg Saadanius
 * Symbol star FA GA.svg Seacology
 * Symbol star FA GA.svg Silky sifaka
 * Symbol star FA GA.svg Slow loris
 * Symbol star FA GA.svg Small-toothed sportive lemur
 * Symbol star FA GA.svg Strepsirrhini
 * Symbol star FA GA.svg Subfossil lemur
 * Symbol support vote.svg Sublingua
 * Symbol support vote.svg Sunda slow loris
 * Symbol star FA GA.svg Taxonomy of lemurs
 * Symbol star FA GA.svg Thomcord
 * Symbol star FA GA.svg Toothcomb
 * Symbol support vote.svg Virgin Islands dwarf sphaero
 * Symbol support vote.svg William Charles Osman Hill

In The News (ITN):
 * Gnome globe current event.svg A new primate, the Lavasoa dwarf lemur, is discovered in Madagascar. (2 August 2013)
 * Gnome globe current event.svg The oldest known primate skeleton, Archicebus, dating to 55 million years ago, is discovered in China. (5 June 2013)
 * Gnome globe current event.svg The discovery of Saadanius hijazensis, a fossilised primate closely related to the common ancestor of the Old World monkeys and apes, is announced. (15 July 2010)

Did You Know (DYK):
 * ... that biological anthropologist David Tab Rasmussen enjoyed working in the Neotropics because it allowed him to study both primates and birds, his two favorite subjects? →19 July 2015 (nomination)
 * ... that although giant mouse lemurs (pictured) breed easily in captivity, a managed population of 62 individuals of the endangered species fell to only six within twenty years? →25 January 2015 (nomination)
 * ... that English missionary James Sibree helped design and build approximately 50 churches in Madagascar in addition to writing books about the island's flora and fauna? →15 January 2015 (nomination)
 * ... that the genera for fork-marked lemurs (pictured) and giant mouse lemurs were named after characters in the British comedy The Palace of Truth by W. S. Gilbert? →2 January 2015 (nomination)
 * ... that the animated film The Garden of Words by Makoto Shinkai is a love story intended to convey the traditional Japanese meaning of "love", koi, or "lonely sadness"? →1 January 2015 (nomination)
 * ... that Dareka no Manazashi, the 6-minute 40-second Japanese anime film directed by Makoto Shinkai, was screened alongside his other film, The Garden of Words? →29 November 2014 (nomination)
 * ... that one of the founders of Lemurs' Park near Antananarivo is the grandson of Pierre Boiteau, the Founding Director of the Tsimbazaza Zoo? →9 October 2014 (nomination)
 * ... that the Anosy mouse lemur and Marohita mouse lemur were described as new lemur species in March 2013, and the latter was listed as Endangered the year before? →4 April 2013 (nomination)
 * ... that in 2013 the Bornean slow loris (Nycticebus menagensis) was split into three additional species: N. kayan, N. bancanus, and N. borneanus? →26 January 2013 (nomination)
 * ... that American mammalogist and pathologist Marcus Ward Lyon Jr. published more than 160 papers during the course of his career? →20 January 2013 (nomination)
 * ... that confused terminology and misconceptions about strepsirrhine anatomy and phylogeny were factors in the media hype over the "Ida" fossil (pictured)? →6 October 2012 (nomination)
 * ... that the award-winning, romantic Japanese anime film, Hotarubi no Mori e, has been likened to the works of Hayao Miyazaki of Studio Ghibli? →22 September 2012 (nomination)
 * ... that Archaeoindris, a recently extinct giant lemur from Madagascar, was the largest known lemur, comparable in size to a male gorilla? →27 August 2012 (nomination)
 * ... that the identification of azibiids, a type of fossil primate including Azibius, as either strepsirrhine or haplorine weighs heavily on the African or Asian origins of primates? →7 July 2012 (nomination)
 * ... that unlike its closest living relatives, lemurs and lorisoids, Djebelemur from Eocene Africa probably lacked a toothcomb? →6 July 2012 (nomination)
 * ... that dental similarities in Afrotarsius, an African fossil primate, and Afrasia, a newly described fossil primate from Myanmar, add support to the hypothesis that simians first evolved in Asia? →19 June 2012 (nomination)
 * ... that 57 million-year-old Altiatlasius from Morocco may be the oldest fossil primate yet found, despite a molecular estimate that places the last common ancestor of primates at 90 million years ago? →17 June 2012 (nomination)
 * ... that Algeripithecus, a 46–50 million year old fossil primate, was once crucial for the African origins of simians (monkeys and apes), but now suggests African origins for lemurs and lorisoids? →14 June 2012 (nomination)
 * ... that Plesiopithecus, a fossil primate from the late Eocene in Egypt, closely resembles the aye-aye of Madagascar and raises questions about the evolutionary history of lemurs? →9 June 2012 (nomination)
 * ... that lemurs, lorises, and galagos have a special dental structure called a toothcomb, which they use to comb their fur during grooming? →19 March 2012 (nomination)
 * ... that French paleontologist Charles Lamberton scathingly rebutted a theory claiming that some extinct, giant lemurs were aquatic and that one of them was an "arboreal-aquatic acrobat"? →23 February 2012 (nomination)
 * ... that prosimian primates like lemurs and slow lorises have a "second tongue" called a sublingua, which they use to clean their toothcomb? →23 February 2012 (nomination)
 * ... that the name Pachylemur, now used for a type of extinct giant lemur, was first used as group name of primitive primates once considered intermediate between pachyderms and lemurs? →15 February 2012 (nomination)
 * ... that Gerp's mouse lemur is a newly discovered mouse lemur species from Madagascar, and is only known from an area smaller than the size of Puerto Rico? →19 January 2012 (nomination)
 * ... that Seacology has preserved 957852 acre of marine habitat and 852651 acre of terrestrial habitat since it was founded in 1991? →16 August 2011 (nomination)
 * ... that the slow lorises that are illegally caught and traded as exotic pets have their front teeth cut out due to fear of their toxic bite? →30 March 2011
 * ... that the small-toothed sportive lemur is the only sportive lemur to have evolved after dispersing across river corridors between western and eastern Madagascar? →15 March 2011
 * ... that slow lorises and their conservation are threatened by the exotic pet trade and traditional medicine? →28 February 2011
 * ... that Marojejy National Park (pictured) contains the last remaining mountain scrub in Madagascar to be unaltered by fire? →12 February 2011
 * ... that the foremost authority on primate anatomy during the 20th century, William Charles Osman Hill, enjoyed drugstore ice cream and gardening with his wife, Yvonne? →5 February 2011
 * ... that when first described in the 1890s, the Bornean slow loris was said to have the face of a bear, the hands of a monkey, and to move like a sloth? →28 January 2011
 * ... that the Hoollongapar Gibbon Sanctuary in Assam, India, is named after the only ape in India, the hoolock gibbon? →27 January 2011
 * ... that the Javan slow loris is threatened by the exotic pet trade and was included in the 2008–2010 list of "The World's 25 Most Endangered Primates? →17 January 2011
 * ... that the Bengal slow loris is found in numerous protected areas, yet is still threatened by poaching and illegal logging? →12 January 2011
 * ... that the Mikea Forest, one of the largest remaining forest blocks in southwestern Madagascar, is yet to be protected? →9 January 2011
 * ... that the Thomcord grape, a seedless hybrid of the Concord and Thompson Seedless grapes, underwent 17 years of testing before being declared ready for growers and gardeners? →8 January 2011
 * ... that disagreements over the classification of fossil primates within the infraorder Tarsiiformes lie at the heart of the debate over early primate evolution and the origins of "higher primates"? →23 November 2010
 * ... that all of the surviving individuals of the species listed in the The World's 25 Most Endangered Primates, which include the silky sifaka (Propithecus candidus), could fit into a single football stadium? →18 August 2010
 * ... that as recently as 500 years ago, the island of Madagascar was inhabited by giant lemurs, referred to as subfossil lemurs, that weighed between 10 and 200 kg? →12 June 2010
 * ... that fossas (pictured) have lengthy mating sessions because the male's erect penis has backwards-pointing spines along most of its length? →6 June 2010
 * ... that the list of lemur species promoted by the book Lemurs of Madagascar is not universally accepted by all lemur researchers? →11 May 2010
 * ... that lemurs are primates that evolved and diversified on the island of Madagascar after arriving there at least 56 million years ago on a raft of vegetation? →7 April 2010
 * ...that lemurs exhibit female social dominance? →5 April 2010
 * ... that the sloth lemurs of the genus Mesopropithecus  were once thought to be indriids  due to the similarities between their skulls and those of living sifakas? →5 March 2010
 * ... that the discovery of Babakotia radofilai, an extinct species of sloth lemur, helped to resolve the relationship between the indriids, sloth lemurs, and monkey lemurs? →5 March 2010
 * ... that the extinct monkey lemurs, including Hadropithecus, were most closely related to modern indris and sifakas, as well as the extinct sloth lemurs? →28 February 2010
 * ... that illegal logging in Madagascar has been an ongoing problem, which escalated after the 2009 Malagasy political crisis, threatening endangered species such as rosewood trees and lemurs? →22 February 2010
 * ... that both Margot Marsh's mouse lemur and Arnhold's mouse lemur are separated from their closest relatives by species barriers? →31 July 2009
 * ... that between 2000 and 2008, 39 new species of lemur were described in Madagascar, bringing the total number of recognized species and subspecies to 99? →13 May 2009
 * ... that the gray mouse lemur is one of the smallest primates in the world, weighing only 60 g? →8 April 2009
 * ... that unlike most other lemurs, the collared brown lemurs do not demonstrate female dominance? →4 February 2009
 * ... that experiments have indicated that ruffed lemurs can understand the outcome of simple arithmetic operations? →17 October 2008