Wikipedia:Today's featured article/requests/Golden-crowned sifaka

Golden-crowned sifaka
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 * This is the archived discussion of the TFAR nomination for the article below. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as Wikipedia talk:Today's featured article/requests). Please do not modify this page. 

The result was: scheduled for Today's featured article/June 30, 2013 by BencherliteTalk 12:35, 14 June 2013‎ (UTC)



The golden-crowned sifaka (Propithecus tattersalli) is a medium-sized lemur characterized by mostly white fur, prominent furry ears and a golden-orange crown. It is one of the smallest sifakas (genus Propithecus), weighing around 3.5 kg and measuring approximately 90 cm from head to tail. Like all sifakas, it is a vertical clinger and leaper, and its diet includes mostly seeds and leaves. It is named after its discoverer, Ian Tattersall, who first spotted the species in 1974. In 1988, a research team observed and captured some specimens for captive breeding. Found in gallery, deciduous, and semi-evergreen forest, its restricted range includes 44 forest fragments, totaling an area of 44,125 ha, centered around the town of Daraina in northeast Madagascar. Its estimated population is between 6,000 and 10,000 individuals. Reproduction is seasonal, with gestation lasting six months and lactation lasting five months. Infants are weaned during the wet season to ensure the best chances of survival. Forest fragmentation, habitat destruction, poaching, slash-and-burn agriculture, and other human factors threaten its existence. The golden-crowned sifaka is listed by the IUCN Red List as Endangered. In Madagascar, lawlessness resulting from the 2009 political coup led to increased poaching of this species, and many were sold to local restaurants as a delicacy.

Endangered species, I will ask the author to be the first to trim the blurb, 2010 FA, --Gerda Arendt (talk) 14:01, 11 June 2013 (UTC)
 * Support, educational and encyclopedic. Also, SCIENCE! &mdash; Cirt (talk) 19:52, 11 June 2013 (UTC)
 * Support An excellent article. We get a lot of these zoological articles at DYK, but not so many at TFA. Hawkeye7 (talk) 21:20, 11 June 2013 (UTC)
 * Support. I was going to say more-or-less what Hawkeye said. I don't know if they are, but articles on animals feel under-represented at TFA. HJ Mitchell  &#124;  Penny for your thoughts?  16:17, 13 June 2013 (UTC)