Talk:Quokka

message: "This has been proven and experimented by scientists who have taken blood tests on wild quokkas on Rottnest Island" - who WRITES this barely literate nonsense? (a) Scientists don't 'prove' anything. (b) 'and experimented by scientists' is meaningless word-salad, utter ghibberish. Here is more: "over its evolution, its system has been built for arboreal locomotion". Good God.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 92.21.84.208 (talk) 21:09, 2 November 2023 (UTC)
thread_title: Dreadful English

message: Why is Quokka capitalized? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 24.155.243.126 (talk • contribs) .
:It is a species, and species can be capitalised as they are specific. The more broad terms, such as marsupial, cannot be capitalised. --liquidGhoul 02:29, 3 September 2006 (UTC)
replies: text:  That's TERRIBLE English.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 92.21.84.208 (talk) 21:07, 2 November 2023 (UTC)
thread_title: Capitalization

message: The second photo , looks more like a Tasmanian Pademelon to me. Both can be seen at Melbourne Zoo. Note the large ears and light coloured tail. Ghouston 11:19, 30 May 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Looks like I was right: 06:14, 17 August 2009‎ Ozraptor4 (talk | contribs)‎ m . . (6,489 bytes) (-65)‎ . . (→‎Status: removed image which is not of a quokka (Setonix) but of a pademelon (Thylogale).) Ghouston (talk) 01:13, 17 March 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: Photo

message: The word "quokka" SHOULD NOT BE CAPITALIZED.  A(n English) species name is NOT a proper noun; a proper noun is a SPECIFIC person, place, or thing:  a quokka named "Quirky the Quokka" is capitalized, but that's it.  By means of example, Wikipedia's own definition of "proper noun" uses this as an example:  "For example, someone might be named 'Tiger Smith' despite being neither a tiger nor a smith."  philiptdotcom 08:43, 23 September 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: See WP:MaM and WP:BIRD for why it is capitalized. - UtherSRG (talk) 12:22, 23 September 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  "quokka" is NOT a proper noun 

message: Note:
"...two islands off the coast of that area, Bald Island, Rottnest Island, Garden Island and rarely Penguin Island."
It says "two," then proceeds to list FOUR islands.  Is it protected on all four?  (If not, which two?)
Then: "Both islands are free of foxes and cats."  This needs to be re-worded to reflect "all islands" (or otherwise re-worded to be unambiguous if the "four" islands is correct).  
Also, information from a guide on a recent trip to Rottnest Island was that there were a couple of mainland populations of quokka (recently discovered?  maybe in predator-proof fences?  not sure of the details; someone who can cite a reference should modify the page)...
P.S. - Here's a general reference: http://www.perthzoo.wa.gov.au/Animals--Plants/Australia/Australian-Bushwalk/Quokka/
—Preceding unsigned comment added by Philiptdotcom (talk • contribs) 08:36, 23 September 2007 (UTC)
replies: text:  Yes, and there is plenty more. Dreadful English throughout.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 92.21.84.208 (talk) 21:10, 2 November 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Someone  needs to edit this page 

message: This article has a lot of good information. I believe adding more information about the vulnerable status of the quokka would add to the article. In addition, adding some new information about the quokka would be helpful. This is a rather small article as is, and the last time it was updated appears to be in 2014. Adding in some new, relevant information could be helpful. Hpw27 (talk) 02:15, 2 February 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Article Evaluation  

message: Mention why they "look happy" to humans. Jidanni (talk) 11:17, 8 February 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Happy? 

message: Thanks for being bold on your recent edit. Can you provide a source for your claim that White-striped free-tailed bat are native to the island? Maybe  (who added the source here) could shed more light on this claim? Here's to a wonderful discussion! Elfabet (talk) 13:28, 7 March 2019 (UTC)
replies: text: I'm slightly confused with the discussion. Do you want to tell that White-striped free-tailed bat are native or non-native to the island? Rottnest Island Wildlife website provides a Factsheet on White Striped Free-tail bat  with the description of the species habitat on the island, but it's rather generic. Could you please clarify? Thank you. (Familiarfrog (talk) 16:15, 7 March 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Only mammal native to Rottnest Island? 

message: The whole of Wikipedia's natural history pages need to be edited to remove links to ARKive as, extremely sadly, it has been forced to shut down due to lack of funding. All links now redirect to a page on the Wildscreen website, explaining that it closed on 2019/02/28.
We should never take these sites for granted, thinking they'll always be there because, one day, they won't be… I was devastated when I found it'd gone…
ARKive 2003-2019 RIP :'0(  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Margolotta (talk • contribs) 05:31, 14 March 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  ARKive 

message: I think that maybe there should be something about the trend of tourists and quokkas taking selfies together. IlSoupylI (talk) 15:07, 26 June 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Quokka selfies 

message: They throw there baby's a at predators 206.188.154.132 (talk) 16:26, 22 July 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Babys 

message: — Assignment last updated by Pelang5115 (talk) 14:07, 23 March 2023 (UTC)
thread_title: Wiki Education assignment: Conservation biology