Template:Did you know nominations/Temora longicornis

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The result was: promoted by Yoninah (talk) 22:24, 30 April 2018 (UTC)

Temora longicornis edit

  • ... that the copepod Temora longicornis makes daily vertical migrations, spending the day near the seabed and the night near the surface? Source: "A strong vertical migrator, Temora is usually found near bottom by day and near the surface at night."

Created by Cwmhiraeth (talk). Self-nominated at 19:38, 12 April 2018 (UTC).

  • New, in time, long enough, sourced, inline hook citation checks out, no apparent copyvios, QPQ done. Cwmhiraeth, can "3D tracking" be linked to anything, and is there any reason why males sometimes follow the female trail in the wrong direction? Also, the one-sentence paragraph in "Ecology" could be split in two. --Usernameunique (talk) 14:58, 14 April 2018 (UTC)
@Usernameunique: These copepods are minute and living in the open ocean in locations difficult for researchers to study, while keeping them in a lab probably alters their behaviour. To answer your points in order: 1. I don't know; 2. presumably because they detect a chemical trace from a moving female but are unable to detect its direction of motion; 3. I've divided it. Cwmhiraeth (talk) 17:45, 14 April 2018 (UTC)