Talk:American Red Squirrel

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The definition given for the name Tamiasciurus is somewhat fanciful: “the steward who sits in the shadow of his tail.” The Greek "tamia" can be variously translated as "keeper" or "treasurer," and "steward" is also within reason. Latin "sciurus" comes from Greak "skia-ouros," which means "shadow-tail." However, "sciurus" was already in use by everyday Romans in classical times, and only educated speakers of Greek among those Romans would have known that that name meant "shadow-tail." Tamiasciurus is known for hoarding large quantities of pine cones in middens, which may poetically considered to be the squirrel's "treasury." A more reasonable interpretation of Erxleben's intent in bestowing the name Tamiasciurus is "hoarder squirrel." - Rod Thompson, Hilo, Hawaii

The content of this page is almost identical to one of the pages on the Kluane website linked in the references. It looks as though someone has done a rip off, and though it could have gone in either direction., my guess is that we have a copyvio here. The Kluane material was added by an anon. Any ideas anyone? seglea 02:57, 30 December 2006 (UTC)

Ah, I see that the last of the major edits were made by a user called user:Amacadam, which is actually the name of one of the people working on the Kluane website, so it is probably ok. seglea 03:05, 30 December 2006 (UTC)