Talk:Pangolin

message: The tree pangolin is of central importance to the Lele people. Perhaps something on this could be included? See Animals in Lele Religious Symbolism in Implicit Meanings by Mary Douglas for details.  81.168.46.55 17:26, 25 April 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Douglas's "Animals in Lele Religious Symbolism": https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/9780203029909/chapters/10.4324/9780203029909-8. ; https://www.uio.no/studier/emner/sv/sai/SOSANT1600/v12/Douglas_Animals_in_Lele_1156365.pdf . Acwilson9 (talk) 03:57, 17 August 2020 (UTC)
thread_title: Place in Lele religious symbolism

message: Someone stated that the population of Pangolins has doubled in the past four months in the "Threats" section. They even included a reference link. First of all, the history shows that the statement has been there since at least April, so is it four months or ten months? But it doesn't make any difference because the statement is completely bogus. The reference link mentions pangolins, but it doesn't say anything about their population doubling. I'd fix it, but everything I know about pangolins was what I learned on Wikipedia in the last 5 minutes. So, hopefully a pangolin expert will fix this.
And what's the deal with the bloody Chinese, anyway? Is there any endangered species that they don't eat? Martylunsford 00:50, 4 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Vandalism in the "Threats" section

message: The Pangolin page in the Catalan edition has an image of a Coat of pangolin scales. Would that be something to include here? --Cavalaxis (talk) 02:13, 31 May 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: I'll put that straight away if I can find a suitable place to include it. By the way, if you are the same Cavalaxis I met on Flickr, you must have seen I put your Baby Pangolin picture to good use :) Leptictidium (mt) 17:08, 4 June 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: The caption of the photo of the Pangolin armor in the Threats section said it was given to George III in 1820. However, George III died in January of 1820. Is the date wrong, or could it be that it was actually given to George IV instead?  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2001:558:6017:7D:5596:6189:66DF:131 (talk) 16:11, 26 May 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Pangolin used for clothing 

message: what is the biome for a pangolin?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 159.191.247.22 (talk) 18:49, 5 March 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Biome 

message: Looking at the taxonomy section it looks like this should be split into at least, order, family and genus level articles, as there are a number of taxa at each level that are not talked about at all now, as the article is basically a genus level one right now.--Kevmin (talk) 20:32, 11 April 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: I agree, there should be a family- and an order-level article spawned off from this article, although I don't think they will be anything more than stubs for a long time, although the order article will include the full tree given in this article. Go for it. :) - UtherSRG (talk) 20:43, 11 April 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Split the article 

message: Yes, I know AC, I know. AC Bait (talk) 00:52, 26 January 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Not an instrument

message: Hello, as an English class project, I have added a bit more information to the lead section as well as some links to other related Wikipedia pages.Acaill6 (talk) 16:44, 2 March 2015 (UTC)
thread_title: Lead Section

message: Hello fellow editors, I recently added a section on the issues faced by Pangolins being raised in captivity as well as adding several new citations and edits for grammar and flow into the article. If you see any issues with it, feel free to contact me. Falgaia (talk) 21:39, 15 September 2016 (UTC)
replies: text: Hi.  The content looks good.  One minor point, the titles of papers in journal are usually written in WP without capitals for each word (sentencecase).  Happy editing. DrChrissy (talk) 22:08, 15 September 2016 (UTC)
replies: text: Thanks! I'll be sure to keep that in mind with future page edits. Falgaia (talk) 05:05, 16 September 2016 (UTC)
replies: text:  The taxobox in this article now lists the entire family of pangolins as "critically endangered." Is this classification accurate? Jarble (talk) 18:35, 7 March 2018 (UTC)
replies: text: I removed that entry from the taxobox. Assessments within the family range from Vulnerable to Critically Endangered, so no statements can be made for the clade as a whole. --Elmidae (talk · contribs) 09:45, 8 March 2018 (UTC)
thread_title: Conservation and Cleanup

message: The following was only in the lead, and not in the body, and not sourced anywhere.  Moving here per WP:PRESERVE.  well-sourced content on etymology would be great. 
The name pangolin comes from the Malay word "pengguling", meaning "something that rolls up". Other sources posits that it probably comes from the Serer word pangool (saints and/ancestral spirits). It is found in tropical regions throughout Africa and Asia.
-- Jytdog (talk) 06:56, 14 November 2016 (UTC)
replies: text: I have restored the first and last sentences, with a citation for the first one that should be sufficient. I do not know what the "other sources" referred to in the second sentence might be, so I have not restored that part. Obviously, if somebody else does, then feel free! Anaxial (talk) 19:12, 14 November 2016 (UTC)
replies: text: great, thanks.  i moved it to the body. Jytdog (talk) 20:58, 14 November 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Etymology 

message: ===Mating===
If females seek out males, how do the fights between males over females happen? The citation link is broken/dead. 86.139.252.193 (talk) 12:49, 13 February 2017 (UTC)
replies: text: Provide a proper citation. She's not the only person to ever work with these animals, and if she contradicts the opinion of others, that doesn't necessarily mean she's right. Long-tailed pangolins are indeed active by day, but remember that other nocturnal mammals such as bats start out their lives diurnal and switch to being active at night as they grow up. Perhaps that's what's going on with her pangolins? Sumanuil (talk) 21:30, 27 May 2018 (UTC)
replies: text: UPDATE: I watched the episode. She does not say they're not nocturnal, or that they don't eat termites. She says they eat more ants than termites, and that they're not nocturnal in the winter. Sumanuil (talk) 23:26, 27 May 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Behavior 

message: If females seek out males, how do the fights between males over females happen? The citation link is broken/dead. 86.139.252.193 (talk) 12:49, 13 February 2017 (UTC)
thread_title: Mating

message: According to Maria Diekmann, who is one of the few people who raised and cared for Pangolins, they are not nocturnal.  She says most of the on-line information is incorrect. This was mentioned on the PBS Nature episode on Pangolins. BruceBarnett (talk) 16:00, 27 May 2018 (UTC)
replies: text: Provide a proper citation. She's not the only person to ever work with these animals, and if she contradicts the opinion of others, that doesn't necessarily mean she's right. Long-tailed pangolins are indeed active by day, but remember that other nocturnal mammals such as bats start out their lives diurnal and switch to being active at night as they grow up. Perhaps that's what's going on with her pangolins? Sumanuil (talk) 21:30, 27 May 2018 (UTC)
replies: text: UPDATE: I watched the episode. She does not say they're not nocturnal, or that they don't eat termites. She says they eat more ants than termites, and that they're not nocturnal in the winter. Sumanuil (talk) 23:26, 27 May 2018 (UTC)
thread_title: Not Nocturnal

message: Ok, I don’t doubt that this is the proper scientific name, but really.  Most people have trouble getting beyond corinavirus to COVID19, let alone SARS coronavirus 2 vector.  Is it really necessary to use this term A as the section title and B so many times in the text?   Let’s keep it understandable and readable and, therefore, usable, eh? Boscaswell talk 06:47, 20 February 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: no comments from anyone so I went ahead and changed it, re-writing the whole subsection as well as the title. Boscaswell talk 23:16, 22 February 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: Suggest review of The proximal origin of SARS-CoV-2https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-020-0820-9 to revise this section. The data cited in this section is outdated and inconsistent with the currently accurate data being published.  GrantAdamCole (talk) 18:34, 18 March 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  SARS coronavirus 2 vector 

message: skakEL 14:56, 1 October 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: OK, I figured out that it means extinct. I added Pangolin#Notation, to make that clear to uninitiated readers. but I'm not sure if that's the convention way to do that. please adjust as necessary. skakEL 15:04, 1 October 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  what does the "†" (dagger) notation indicate? 

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thread_title: Wiki Education assignment: BSC 4052 Conservation Biology

message: Mentioned in folk medicine section.
When introducing an acronym, it is best to expand it when it is first mentioned. 98.97.8.243 (talk) 17:48, 18 February 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  What does the acronym TCM mean? 

message: There is no mention in the article of the natural lifespan of Pangolins. 98.97.8.243 (talk) 17:51, 18 February 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Lifespan?