User:Maky/Achievements

This user has written or expanded 57 articles featured in the Did You Know section on the Main Page.

This user has helped promote 44 good articles on Wikipedia.

This user helped promote 27 featured articles on Wikipedia.

This user has written or significantly contributed to 2 featured lists on Wikipedia.

This user has a Triple Crown.

22 of this user's featured articles have appeared on Today's featured article.

This user has received 9 Four Awards.

This editor won the Quarter Million Award for bringing Lemur to Good Article status.

This editor won the Quarter Million Award for bringing Slow loris to Good Article status.

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Today's Featured List (TFL):

The World's 25 Most Endangered Primates →1 October 2012

Media of the day (WikiCommons):

File:Lemur catta - scent marking 01.ogv →6 January 2011

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In The News (ITN):

A new primate, the Lavasoa dwarf lemur, is discovered in Madagascar. (2 August 2013)
The oldest known primate skeleton, Archicebus, dating to 55 million years ago, is discovered in China. (5 June 2013)
The discovery of Saadanius hijazensis, a fossilised primate closely related to the common ancestor of the Old World monkeys and apes, is announced. (15 July 2010)

Did You Know (DYK):

... that biological anthropologist David Tab Rasmussen enjoyed working in the Neotropics because it allowed him to study both primates and birds, his two favorite subjects? →19 July 2015 (nomination)
... that although giant mouse lemurs (pictured) breed easily in captivity, a managed population of 62 individuals of the endangered species fell to only six within twenty years? →25 January 2015 (nomination)
... that English missionary James Sibree helped design and build approximately 50 churches in Madagascar in addition to writing books about the island's flora and fauna? →15 January 2015 (nomination)
... that the genera for fork-marked lemurs (pictured) and giant mouse lemurs were named after characters in the British comedy The Palace of Truth by W. S. Gilbert? →2 January 2015 (nomination)
... that the animated film The Garden of Words by Makoto Shinkai is a love story intended to convey the traditional Japanese meaning of "love", koi, or "lonely sadness"? →1 January 2015 (nomination)
... that Dareka no Manazashi, the 6-minute 40-second Japanese anime film directed by Makoto Shinkai, was screened alongside his other film, The Garden of Words? →29 November 2014 (nomination)
... that one of the founders of Lemurs' Park near Antananarivo is the grandson of Pierre Boiteau, the Founding Director of the Tsimbazaza Zoo? →9 October 2014 (nomination)
... that the Anosy mouse lemur and Marohita mouse lemur were described as new lemur species in March 2013, and the latter was listed as Endangered the year before? →4 April 2013 (nomination)
... that in 2013 the Bornean slow loris (Nycticebus menagensis) was split into three additional species: N. kayan, N. bancanus, and N. borneanus? →26 January 2013 (nomination)
... that American mammalogist and pathologist Marcus Ward Lyon Jr. published more than 160 papers during the course of his career? →20 January 2013 (nomination)
... that confused terminology and misconceptions about strepsirrhine anatomy and phylogeny were factors in the media hype over the "Ida" fossil (pictured)? →6 October 2012 (nomination)
... that the award-winning, romantic Japanese anime film, Hotarubi no Mori e, has been likened to the works of Hayao Miyazaki of Studio Ghibli? →22 September 2012 (nomination)
... that Archaeoindris, a recently extinct giant lemur from Madagascar, was the largest known lemur, comparable in size to a male gorilla? →27 August 2012 (nomination)
... that the identification of azibiids, a type of fossil primate including Azibius, as either strepsirrhine or haplorine weighs heavily on the African or Asian origins of primates? →7 July 2012 (nomination)
... that unlike its closest living relatives, lemurs and lorisoids, Djebelemur from Eocene Africa probably lacked a toothcomb? →6 July 2012 (nomination)
... that dental similarities in Afrotarsius, an African fossil primate, and Afrasia, a newly described fossil primate from Myanmar, add support to the hypothesis that simians first evolved in Asia? →19 June 2012 (nomination)
... that 57 million-year-old Altiatlasius from Morocco may be the oldest fossil primate yet found, despite a molecular estimate that places the last common ancestor of primates at 90 million years ago? →17 June 2012 (nomination)
... that Algeripithecus, a 46–50 million year old fossil primate, was once crucial for the African origins of simians (monkeys and apes), but now suggests African origins for lemurs and lorisoids? →14 June 2012 (nomination)
... that Plesiopithecus, a fossil primate from the late Eocene in Egypt, closely resembles the aye-aye of Madagascar and raises questions about the evolutionary history of lemurs? →9 June 2012 (nomination)
... that lemurs, lorises, and galagos have a special dental structure called a toothcomb, which they use to comb their fur during grooming? →19 March 2012 (nomination)
... that French paleontologist Charles Lamberton scathingly rebutted a theory claiming that some extinct, giant lemurs were aquatic and that one of them was an "arboreal-aquatic acrobat"? →23 February 2012 (nomination)
... that prosimian primates like lemurs and slow lorises have a "second tongue" called a sublingua, which they use to clean their toothcomb? →23 February 2012 (nomination)
... that the name Pachylemur, now used for a type of extinct giant lemur, was first used as group name of primitive primates once considered intermediate between pachyderms and lemurs? →15 February 2012 (nomination)
... that Gerp's mouse lemur is a newly discovered mouse lemur species from Madagascar, and is only known from an area smaller than the size of Puerto Rico? →19 January 2012 (nomination)
... that Seacology has preserved 957,852 acres (3,876 km²; 1,497 sq mi) of marine habitat and 852,651 acres (3,451 km²; 1,332 sq mi) of terrestrial habitat since it was founded in 1991? →16 August 2011 (nomination)
... that the slow lorises that are illegally caught and traded as exotic pets have their front teeth cut out due to fear of their toxic bite? →30 March 2011
... that the small-toothed sportive lemur is the only sportive lemur to have evolved after dispersing across river corridors between western and eastern Madagascar? →15 March 2011
... that slow lorises and their conservation are threatened by the exotic pet trade and traditional medicine? →28 February 2011
... that Marojejy National Park (pictured) contains the last remaining mountain scrub in Madagascar to be unaltered by fire? →12 February 2011
... that the foremost authority on primate anatomy during the 20th century, William Charles Osman Hill, enjoyed drugstore ice cream and gardening with his wife, Yvonne? →5 February 2011
... that when first described in the 1890s, the Bornean slow loris was said to have the face of a bear, the hands of a monkey, and to move like a sloth? →28 January 2011
... that the Hoollongapar Gibbon Sanctuary in Assam, India, is named after the only ape in India, the hoolock gibbon? →27 January 2011
... that the Javan slow loris is threatened by the exotic pet trade and was included in the 2008–2010 list of "The World's 25 Most Endangered Primates? →17 January 2011
... that the Bengal slow loris is found in numerous protected areas, yet is still threatened by poaching and illegal logging? →12 January 2011
... that the Mikea Forest, one of the largest remaining forest blocks in southwestern Madagascar, is yet to be protected? →9 January 2011
... that the Thomcord grape, a seedless hybrid of the Concord and Thompson Seedless grapes, underwent 17 years of testing before being declared ready for growers and gardeners? →8 January 2011
... that disagreements over the classification of fossil primates within the infraorder Tarsiiformes lie at the heart of the debate over early primate evolution and the origins of "higher primates"? →23 November 2010
... that all of the surviving individuals of the species listed in the The World's 25 Most Endangered Primates, which include the silky sifaka (Propithecus candidus), could fit into a single football stadium? →18 August 2010
... that as recently as 500 years ago, the island of Madagascar was inhabited by giant lemurs, referred to as subfossil lemurs, that weighed between 10 and 200 kg (22 and 441 lb)? →12 June 2010
... that fossas (pictured) have lengthy mating sessions because the male's erect penis has backwards-pointing spines along most of its length? →6 June 2010
... that the list of lemur species promoted by the book Lemurs of Madagascar is not universally accepted by all lemur researchers? →11 May 2010
... that lemurs are primates that evolved and diversified on the island of Madagascar after arriving there at least 56 million years ago on a raft of vegetation? →7 April 2010
...that lemurs exhibit female social dominance? →5 April 2010
... that the sloth lemurs of the genus Mesopropithecus were once thought to be indriids due to the similarities between their skulls and those of living sifakas? →5 March 2010
... that the discovery of Babakotia radofilai, an extinct species of sloth lemur, helped to resolve the relationship between the indriids, sloth lemurs, and monkey lemurs? →5 March 2010
... that the extinct monkey lemurs, including Hadropithecus, were most closely related to modern indris and sifakas, as well as the extinct sloth lemurs? →28 February 2010
... that illegal logging in Madagascar has been an ongoing problem, which escalated after the 2009 Malagasy political crisis, threatening endangered species such as rosewood trees and lemurs? →22 February 2010
... that both Margot Marsh's mouse lemur and Arnhold's mouse lemur are separated from their closest relatives by species barriers? →31 July 2009
... that between 2000 and 2008, 39 new species of lemur were described in Madagascar, bringing the total number of recognized species and subspecies to 99? →13 May 2009
... that the gray mouse lemur is one of the smallest primates in the world, weighing only 60 grams (2.1 oz)? →8 April 2009
... that unlike most other lemurs, the collared brown lemurs do not demonstrate female dominance? →4 February 2009
... that experiments have indicated that ruffed lemurs can understand the outcome of simple arithmetic operations? →17 October 2008