The text of the entry was: Did you know ... that Archaeoindris(pictured), a recently extinct
giant lemur from
Madagascar, was the largest known
lemur, comparable in size to a male
gorilla?
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And now that I look at it further, it seems likely that the Hippopotomuses were larger. I think this was just someone adding in misinformation. Sorry for spreading it. I'll revise it to largest
primate. -
Atarr (
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05:19, 30 November 2007 (UTC)reply
I think the size of gigantopithecus is debated - if it was only six feet tall, it would not be larger than archaeoindris. Also, archeoindris was a primitive primate, related to lemurs. I'm not sure if your wording is better.
David Sher (
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21:52, 9 December 2007 (UTC)reply
At the end of the lead, it says "it was still extant when humans arrived on the west coast of Madagascar". If this means "when humans arrived on Madagascar (btw they arrived on the west coast)", I think it is mistaken. If it means "when humans first spread around Madagascar and reached the west coast", I fail to see the relevance of the west coast to a creature that lived in the central highlands.
Maproom (
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10:28, 27 August 2012 (UTC)reply
It meant that humans first settled the west coast, and at that time, Archaeoindris was still around. I've removed the mention of the west coast from the lead to improve clarity. –
Maky«
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This is a very well written article, mostly understandable even for someone like me due to your clear explanations. Quite interesting. Just a few questions about wording:
"deliberate climber that visited the ground to travel." - what is a deliberate climber?
A "deliberate climber" is literally what it sounds like. They move slowly and each foothold is carefully, and deliberately selected. Think of a sloth... or better yet, a
slow loris. "Slow and deliberate climber" is both a technical term and also the most basic description I can come up with—in fact, that's what the team who wrote the "Slow loris" article used to describe them. I guess I could add a brief subsection about it on
Arboreal locomotion and link to that... –
Maky«
talk »00:58, 13 September 2012 (UTC)reply
"one of the most speciose of all the subfossil lemur" - what is "speciose"?
"Furthermore, Lamberton did not realize that the smaller femurs he instead assigned to Archaeoindris belonged to a juvenile" - I think this sentence could be clearer. Could the "instead" be removed? Or moved to the end of the sentence?
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The article's intro states that the lemur was "still extant when humans first arrived on Madagascar" and provides a link. The linked article says that humans arrived c. 1,200 years ago, meaning c. 800 CE. But the intro also says the lemur probably went extinct c. 350 BCE, meaning about 1,150 years before humans arrived. This needs to be cleared up, but I lack the requisite knowledge. --
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00:43, 23 January 2022 (UTC)reply