Talk:Capybara

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User:VigilancePrime/Templates/Collapsing Zoos throughout the world that have capybaras include:

Continent of North America

• Five capybaras live at the Hollywild Animal Park in Inman, South Carolina (as of 2007).
• Four capybaras live at The Snake Farm in New Braunfels, Texas (as of 10/2007).
• At least four capybaras live at Happy Hollow Park & Zoo in San Jose, California (as of 12/2007).
• Three capybaras live at the Smithsonian National Zoological Park's elephant house (as of 09/2006).
• At least three capybaras live at Wildlife Safari in Winston, Oregon (as of 11/2007).
• Two capybaras live at the Hattiesburg Zoo in Hattiesburg, Mississippi (as of 09/2007).
• Two capybaras live at the San Francisco Zoo in San Francisco, California (as of 10/2007).
• Two capybaras live at the San Diego Zoo in San Diego, California (as of 10/2007).
• Two capybaras live at the Jacksonville Zoo and Gardens in Jacksonville, Florida (as of 11/2007).
• Two capybaras live at Hovatter's Zoo in Kingwood, West Virginia (as of 09/2007).
• Two capybaras live at the York's Wild Kingdom in York, Maine (as of 09/2007).
• Two capybaras live at Southwick's Zoo in Mendon, Massachusetts (as of 10/2007).
• Two capybaras live at the High Park Zoo in Toronto, Ontario (as of 09/2007).
• At least two capybaras live at the Philadelphia Zoo in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (as of 12/2007).
• At least one capybara lives at the Palm Beach Zoo in West Palm Beach, Florida (as of 2007).
• At least one capybara lives at the St. Louis Zoo in St. Louis, Missouri (as of 2007).
• At least two capybaras live at the Denver Zoo in Denver, Colorado (as of 2007).
• At least two capybaras live at the Detroit Zoo in Detroit, Michigan (as of 12/2007).
• At least one capybara lives at the Biodome du Montreal (Montreal Biodome), in Montreal, Quebec (as of 09/2007).
• At least two capybaras live at the Henry Vilas Zoo in Madison, Wisconsin (as of 12/2007).
• At least one capybara lives at the Grande Zoo in Albuquerque, New Mexico (as of 05/2007).
• At least one capybara lives at the Audubon Zoo in New Orleans.
• Buffalo Zoo (1)
• Chapultepec Zoo (2)

Continent of Europe

• Five capybaras live at the Opole Zoo in Opole, Poland (as of 02/2007).
• At least five capybaras live at the Zoo Schönbrunn in Vienna (as of 2005).
• At least three capybara live at the Cerza Zoo in Lisieux, France (as of 12/2007).
• At least two capybaras live at the Attica Zoological Park in Greece.
• At least two capybaras live at the Bristol Zoo in Bristol, England (as of 11/2007).
• At least two capybaras live at the Moscow Zoo in Moscow, Russia (as of 2006).
• At least one capybara lives at the Prague Zoological Garden in Prague (as of 09/2006).
• At least one capybara lives at the Burgers Zoo in the Netherlands (as of 05/2007).
• At least one capybara lives at the Kolmården Zoo in Sweden (as of 2005).
• At least one capybara lives at Howlett's Zoo in Kent, England.
• At least one capybara lives at the Edinburgh Zoo in Edinburgh, Scotland.
• At least one capybara lives at the Twycross Zoo in Warwickshire, England. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 79.65.16.34 (talk) 19:23, 17 October 2008 (UTC)
• Shepreth Wildlife Park (2)
• Natura Artis Magistra (1)
• Cotswold Wildlife Park (1)

Continent of Asia

• At least one capybara lives at the Jerusalem Biblical Zoo in Jerusalem, Israel (as of 12/2007).
• Two capybaras live at Ueno Zoo in Tokyo, Japan (as of 12/2007).
• Zoo Negara (13)
• Singapore Zoological Gardens

Continent of Australia

• At least two capybaras live at the Auckland Zoo in Auckland, New Zealand.

Some thoughts

some comments from, I think, before the overhaul even

Per your message on User_talk:Videmus_Omnia, I'd like to make some suggestions. It's mostly technical and copy-editing stuff, and the overall impression of the article is that it's quite good. Anyway: (adding notes as I address or look at each of these)

• There are 4-5 unclosed wikilinks.
  • I corrected 4 of these... I may have missed one, but if so, I couldn't find it as I looked a couple times over.
• The taxobox is of a non-standard color. Just remove the color setting and it should select the appropriate color for the animal kingdom (pink).
  • Argh, I know you're right. Red looked so much better! Anyway, changed in prep for the upload.
• The conservation status bit in the taxobox should probably be copied from the currently active page.
  • The main page had a broken image so I took that part out. Templates are not my strong suit.
• Per WP:UNITS, all units should primarily be SI (it's a scientific article with no language-preference), and have the imperial units in parentheses.
  • In this case, then, metric all around? I used the units in the sourcees, and almost all of them used imperial units. I'd convert them if I could...
• Per WP:OVERLINK, I feel that the number of internal links is excessive and it could distract from the ones that are really interesting and/or important. I'd be happy to help trim those down.
  • Yes, they are. I tend to like to link everything. I almost gave myself a headache linking! Any help here would be appreciated so as to have, exactly as you said, the interesting (or important) ones remain and remove the others.
• The inline citations look fine, but I haven't had time to go through them all yet.
  • 'k. That's something I'm pretty good at (having once been terrible at referencing at all!).
• The gallery is a bit large, but it's no big deal (they're free images after all).
  • Yeah, another bit of my own partiality... I like galleries.
• The part about leather is mentioned twice. I suggest using only the mention in human interactions, but moving the cite down with it.
  • corrected. Thanks for that catch!
• I'm not sure the part about catholic tradition can grow much larger, so perhaps just incorporate it in the human interactions, where the fact that we eat them is already mentioned.
  • Agreed.

As I said, it's mostly copyediting. Hope you find the suggestions useful. --Pekaje 16:07, 16 September 2007 (UTC)

As for the two ancesteral species that I incorporated (with the intent of changing those pages into redirects), does that look okay? VigilancePrime 17:16, 16 September 2007 (UTC)

Peer Review

Biggest HELP! need is in putting references into the right format. I think this may have Featured Article potential and would like the thoughts (and assistance) of the "larger Wikipedia community." With the exception of citation formatting, this article, I believe, meets the criteria for a GA- or even A- status currently; if someone can confirm/"promote", please do! Many thanks! VigilancePrime 20:34, 3 December 2007 (UTC)

I'm not really into that scene, but AFAIK galleries are frowned upon, especially when they're as big as the one included here, and which seems to be there simply to hold every capybara picture anyone has ever uploaded. See also my point below. --jjron (talk) 06:36, 18 December 2007 (UTC)

Where to find

What's with the huge list of Where to find in captivity? I can't recall seeing this in any other article, and it all seems pretty pointless. Maybe if this was an endangered species it would make some sense, but as far as I know they're quite common, so I can see no reason for this list. --jjron (talk) 06:34, 18 December 2007 (UTC)

Yes, and I'm goin to totally redo this section; I have a plan and only need some time. I think it'll be an improvement when I get it complete. VigilancePrime (talk) 15:55, 18 December 2007 (UTC)

Hmm, OK. But also re the above message about possible FA, most of this list would count as original research, which shouldn't be included regardless, and would definitely exclude it from any hope of FA status. --jjron (talk) 01:39, 19 December 2007 (UTC)

I agree but have already dismissed any thought of this article ever being FA anyway. After two days on the peer review I figured that much out! VigilancePrime (talk) 04:04, 19 December 2007 (UTC) :-)

Hehe, fair enough. --jjron (talk) 04:39, 19 December 2007 (UTC)

Finally took care of the Where to find section (actually, awhile ago). Wanted to note as much.

New Discovery!

Wow! A huge, old, fossilized CAPYBARA! Cool!

Now, though, we have a bunch of links and need to get those incorporated into the article so we don't end up with a LinkFarm.

Please help! VigilancePrime (talk) 05:41, 18 January 2008 (UTC)

There is a stub article Neochoerus pinckneyi. Unfortunately, there are not many useful refences on that page. If it gets incorporated into this article, a link should be made. Dspark76 (talk) 11:58, 19 March 2008 (UTC)

The taste

I see that there is a reference to it tasting like pork. That's true, but if you have ever eaten it the more distinguishing factor is it's strong smell that I'm told also exists in beaver meat. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 199.46.245.230 (talk) 00:03, 20 May 2008 (UTC)

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Giant capybaras?

The article mentions fossil capybaras eight times bigger than the modern capybara, and links to a two popular press articles that use similar wording, but cite no sources. I suspect they're referring to recent finds of giant rodents like Phoberomys and Josephoartigasia, but those are dinomyids, not so closely related to capybaras. Neochoerus pinckneyi was a larger Ice Age capybara, but apparently only weighed about 200 lbs. Unless someone has a reference for a thousand-pound capybara, I suggest we amend the article. Cephal-odd (talk) 02:48, 7 July 2008 (UTC)

Invalid Status?

What's that mean? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.73.70.113 (talk) 02:20, 9 November 2008 (UTC)

Capybara as pets

There is some missing information about capybara as pets. --213.22.5.71 (talk) 23:47, 25 June 2009 (UTC)