Talk:Camelid

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[edit] Extinct camelids

Should I add "Extinct camelids" to the navigation template, or just create a new, separate template for them? --Jpbrenna 03:27, 25 September 2005 (UTC)

I'd say add them, but in a separate section on the bottom of the template...if it gets out of hand, they can always be extracted later and put in their own. Tomer ^TALK 20:09, 3 October 2005 (UTC)

This belongs at Template talk:Camelids... Tomer^talk 22:45, 27 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Removal of unsourced, poorly written section

I removed the following text from the article:

An old camelid's body is set up mainly for dehydration and rehydration

they have a plastic body temperature elliptical ergthrocytes and engage in

seductive protection of plasma volume also they employ a system of

buffered rehydration at the gut and blood stream level. Like the old wold

camelids they new world camelids have elliptical red cels and similar

anatomics features However dissimilar to oldworld camelids. New world

camelids have hemoglobin with a higher affinity

I'm not entirely sure what it's supposed to mean, but my guess is it starts out referring to old world camelids, not simply "old camelids"... I have no idea what a plastic body temperature is, nor ergthrocites, elliptical or otherwise. What exactly is "seductive protection of plasma volume"? Argh. I could go on...and on... "old wold"? "rec cels"? "anatomics" ... there's punctuation missing, and the whole thing appears to end in mid-sentence. If I knew more about camelids, I could probably fix the text into something worth having in the article...but, alas, I don't... Tomer^talk 22:45, 27 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] On the Above and a rephrasing

The above is poorly worded at best. The IP coresponds to someone that vandalized frat page article 'three times' running, and recieved a single warning. Then he did the edit above, so I think it an deliberate attempt at a hoax. That's it, four total on that IP.

• Another anom. IP also edited [1] camel, which looks like a good add as it tickles something in my memory. His one here is more sophmoric, but probably based in fact, perhaps we have a high schooler making his first edits? I left messages on both IP talks.

I also changed the 'sophmoric' edit to this: Wild populations of the bactrian camel have even adapted to drink brackish water, have been observed drinking some saltwater, and some herds live in nuclear test areas.

• The bit about nuclear test areas is very likely true—there are many accounts of animals living in radiates zones (Like Chernobyl <G>).

I'm sure both the tail and head phrases are essentially correct. This transposed phrase: have been observed drinking some saltwater is more problematic and should require a cite, so I put an inline comment around it. I believe the adding contributor was transposing brackish for salt (i.e. mixing terms), which means he's flunking biology or just studying it, or hasn't gotten to it, though brackish waters certainly contain salts—so does my and your tap water.

• Salt and brackish differ in degree, so it's not unlikely in the way I worded it—I have severe doubts as whether that could or would be the sole water supply for the animal. So I make the distinction, I'm not editing here (despite appearances- I just happened through!), so someone who's involved will need to run that down.

I'll attach a CLEAN template here to attract some talent. And an Expert Template as well.

Best regards, FrankB 09:12, 29 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] camelid origin

The text says camelid originated in the Eocene, but the pictures says Pleistocene, which is obviously wrong. The Pleistocene is even too late for when the text says camels started migrating out of NA.

What they really is, that camelids migrate, not origin. From User:4444hhhh