Estelahe

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Primates

gibbon

I've reverted your change to the classification list. All of the primate articles, via WP:PRIM, are following Groves' Primates section in Mammal Species of the World, 3rd ed, due to be published in a couple of months. Where did you get your listing from? - UtherSRG (talk) 21:06, 15 September 2005 (UTC)

Oooh! Wonderful! We need more knowledgable and connected folks like you. I'm just an amateur primatologist, but a rather geeky one at that. *lol* I'll restore your edit and also transfer the info to the Wikispecies gibbon pages. Cheers! (And yes, replying on my talk or on yours is perfectly fine.) - UtherSRG (talk) 20:23, 16 September 2005 (UTC)

Groves has published with Mootnick that the Hoolock Gibbon is not related to Bunopithecus sericus and has moved it to a new genus, the blandly named Hoolock. He's also elevated the two subspecies. - UtherSRG (talk) 13:42, 28 September 2005 (UTC)

Oh, good. I was waiting for that to come out before changing it here. Though wikipedia is under the radar of most systematists, didn't want to steal their thunder! Estelahe 14:46, 28 September 2005 (UTC)

*grins* Any other developing news you'd like to share. *grins* - UtherSRG (talk) 20:03, 28 September 2005 (UTC)

Taxonomically, no. Phylogenetically? If you haven't seen the most recent phylogeny, it's worth checking out. Right now I'm in the middle of writing up a phylogeny of my own. Other manuscripts I'm working up probably wouldn't be of much interest to you (they're mostly intraspecific studies and probably won't include taxonomic revisions).

hybridization in primates

An anonymous user has added a new section to the Primate article: Primate#Primate hybrids. The section includes some information on gibbon hybridization. Can you verify any of this section? - UtherSRG (talk) 11:50, 19 September 2005 (UTC)

Thanks for pointing it out. I've edited that information and can verify it's correct - I can add references if you think it necessary. - Estelahe 20:35, 19 September 2005 (UTC)

And I've updated your update to keep consistent with WP:PRIM's naming guidelines. See the ssection in WP:BIRD for the rationale. - UtherSRG (talk) 02:31, 23 September 2005 (UTC)

Ah, thanks for pointing that out. - Estelahe 18:42, 23 September 2005 (UTC)