Talk:Tiliqua rugosa

message: #.Cheers, Casliber (talk · contribs) 20:44, 12 April 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Support move

message: The abstracts to two papers I coauthored years ago; I'll incoorporate them into the article:
Single unit recordings have been made from the primary auditory nerve of the lizard Trachysaurus rugosus. Both spontaneous and nonspontaneous fibers were found. The spontaneous fibers exhibited multimodal interval histograms and responded to a tone pig by an initial rate increase, an afterinhibition and a rebound. Tuning curves showed peaks between 700 Hz and 3 kHz, and corresponded to the “cochlear audiogram” derived previously from cochlear potentials. A marked seasonal dependence on the number of active fibers correlated well with the increase of summating potential found to occur during early spring. The absolute sensitivity was quite high, with thresholds below 25 db SPL. The most sensitive fiber responded to the rustle of clothing a few feet away.(J.R. Johnstone and B.M. Johnstone (1969b): Unit responses from the lizard auditory nerve. Exp. Neurol. 24, pp 528-537.)
The cochlear potentials of several species of lizard were measured, in particular Trachysaurus rugosus. Auditory responses were measured both at the round window and in scala tympani. The round window membrane was found to have considerable effect on the recorded potentials causing an attenuation and differentiation of summating potential (SP). Geckos and pygopodids produced a large (30 μv) neural response and smaller SP and cochlear microphonics (CM) while skinks, varanids and agamids produced a large SP (20 μv) and smaller neural response and CM. In T. rugosus, frequency response for a constant SP indicated a probable best hearing range of 750–3000 cycle/sec. The Q10 for SP varied from 1.5 at high sound pressures to 3.5 at low sound pressures. When pairs of tone pips were applied to T. rugosus the amplitude and latency of the neural response to the second tone pip were greatly increased. The SP in T. rugosus was very sensitive to season, increasing ten-fold during spring.(J.R. Johnstone and B.M. Johnstone (1969a): Electrophysiology of the lizard cochlea. Exp. Neurol. 24, pp 99-109.)  —Preceding unsigned comment added by RayJohnstone (talk • contribs) 17:14, 3 December 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: I'm an amateur naturalist and can't follow this section. I noticed someone tagged the content 4 years ago for being overly technical and no one has attempted to remedy the situation yet. This section is currently useless to an average person who has no knowledge of animal physiology. The entire section needs to be reworded in layperson terms and extraneous facts should be removed. If this material can't be reworked in a way that is useful to the general public, it might be best to remove the section until someone has the time to fix it. – Down time (talk) 21:34, 11 April 2018 (UTC)
thread_title: Hearing in T. rugosa

message: To this article, I added many elements to make it from a stub plus to a full article. First, I deleted about two hundred unnecessary words that were built on nonreputable facts, or from repeat sections. I added a Behavior Section and placed five subsections under that with Diet, Predators, Captivity, Reproduction, and Socialization. I also added a couple Sensory subsections and a section on Conservation. Lastly, I expanded on the Intro section with another paragraph and fixed up the Description section. Hopefully the article is better now!  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Nikhil.sekar (talk • contribs) 07:51, 5 November 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Edits on 11/4 

message: The only sections that I felt required substantial addition/revision were the behavior and distribution sections. I felt that these were areas missing key details about the lizard after doing some basic research on the species. The Sleepy Lizard is well-known for having a stable home range and demonstrating territorial behavior to floating conspecifics. I added information about their burrows and male-male interactions in the distribution and habitat section. In the behavior section, I added information on agonistic behavior between individuals whose home ranges overlap. I also included information about the extent of parental care and why monogamy in this species has only premating advantages. All of this information about distribution, territorial behavior, and parental care was found in primary literature that I added to the citations. I also made edits to the lead section to make it more concise and clear. A few grammar edits allow the lead section to read more smoothly and successfully summarize the entire article for the reader.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Evanmbradley (talk • contribs) 00:44, 18 November 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Peer Review 11/17/21