Talk:Gopher

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message: Since when has the term "gopher" been used as a catch-all for any and all small burrowing rodents? I always considered a gopher as a specific animal. A squirrel should definately not be considered gophers since they don't meet the qualification of ground burrower with a network of tunnels. and if we use that definition, should we include moles, and shrews? Prairie dogs are not gophers, and ground hogs are not gophers. If this term continues to be used this way it will lead to continued confusion. Evidently there are approx. 40 species of true gophers (Geomyidae), which should be addressed here.Flight Risk (talk) 19:25, 11 January 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: I noticed these problems as well, and I am going to try and fix some of them now.Simplysavvy (talk) 10:55, 16 January 2014 (UTC)

text: I also noticed some other contradictory information. One source I looked at said that gophers can live 12 years, but in this article it says the longest lived gopher only lived for 7 years. What do we do with information like this? I dont really know that much about gophers to be sure who is right.Simplysavvy (talk) 11:12, 16 January 2014 (UTC)

text: Here are two links to info about gophers. Which do you think is reliable? http://www.outwitcritters.com/gopher/ and http://www.pestworldforkids.org/gophers.htmlSimplysavvy (talk) 11:13, 16 January 2014 (UTC)
thread_title: Gopher? Really?

message: This page has a great deal of general information about "gophers", but there is no indication as to what "gopher" it is referring to.  This should clearly be a disambiguation page. There is almost nothing to unite Richardson's ground squirrel with the geomyids except for being rodents that burrow.  It's a bit bold, but I am returning this page to a disambiguation as it would require guessing the initial editors' intents to have a hope of cleaning this up.  --Aranae (talk) 21:53, 10 August 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Alright, I guess there already is a disambiguation page for gopher.  It's clear this should just redirect there, but I will wait to see if there are objections.  --Aranae (talk) 21:57, 10 August 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: The page as it is is clearly insufficient; I agree that geomyids and Spermophilus sensu lato don't have much in common (except for being burrowers). We should redirect this page to gopher, which I just edited to list the three animal groups "gopher" can refer to in a clearer way. Ucucha 19:14, 15 November 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Disambiguate

message: I have a good picture of a gopher, here is the link Gopher Pic  —Preceding unsigned comment added by JTchagbele (talk • contribs) 16:58, 3 October 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Picture 

message: I think it's really bizarre that gopher is a disambig page.  Sure, there are different sorts of gophers, but fish are not even monophyletic, and that's not a dab page!
Move the existing gopher to gopher (disambiguation), delete the redirect, and move this page to gopher. --Trovatore (talk) 08:27, 21 November 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  This article should be primary topic 

message: :No objections, articles were merged. --NickPenguin(contribs) 17:03, 11 February 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Merge proposal 

message: Shouldn't this page have one of those scientific name/conservation status sidebars that most other animal articles have?
:You're right, I'll work on that now! -Newyorkadam (talk) 16:28, 19 January 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  What's the scientific name? 

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thread_title: Assessment comment

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message: Nowhere is a little factoid about their preference as to time of day. My cat says they’re nocturnal as he “talks” thru the window screen into the night. No owl hoots, but lots of gopher holes! Would someone please tell me if the cat is right?
Thank you! 47.217.9.149 (talk) 20:55, 12 April 2022 (UTC)
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