Talk:New England cottontail

A fact from New England cottontail appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 6 September 2010 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that, in the southern counties of Maine, the New England Cottontail (pictured) has been reduced to perhaps 250 individuals?

A record of the entry may be seen at Wikipedia:Recent additions/2010/September.

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The revision of 15:10, 23 December 2009 adds the following phrase to a sentence:
", as well there are know populations of rabbit in Eastern and Central pennsylvania.[3]"
The cited reference does not support the existence of the New England Cottontail (Sylvilagus transitionalis) anywhere in Pennsylvania. I suspect that the editor had seen individuals of the Eastern Cottontail (Sylvilagus floridanus) in Pennsylvania and mistakenly added this phrase. I will delete it, preserving the reference, which is correct for the original sentence.

JamesHAndrews (talk) 18:16, 27 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Copyright concerns

This article needs to be thoroughly checked for copyright concerns. Content entered here seems to have been copied from this source, which is not compatibly licensed with Wikipedia. (It forbids commercial reuse.) Some of that content is still in publication in the article. Other sources should be verified as well. --Moonriddengirl ^(talk) 15:02, 16 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]

"Merricack valley of New Hampshire" What is it?

Merricack valley? Is it real place? or it should be Merrimack Valley 37.190.50.119 (talk) 04:50, 19 September 2014 (UTC)[reply]

distribution map

maps.iucnredlist.org/map.html?id=21212

Please add a more detailed distribution map, such as the one on the Red List page. -71.174.176.136 (talk) 18:59, 20 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Bunny infestation overruns Boston

www.metro.us/boston/bunny-infestation-overruns-boston/zsJofC---Cf1Se4Rx8KvjU/

Bunny infestation overruns Boston
July 1 2015, Nate Homan 
Rabbit season in Boston makes for the cutest neighbors imaginable

Please add information about cottontail rabbits living "wild" in urban/suburban yards. Are they all likely to be Eastern Cottontail, or are some also New England Cottontail? -71.174.176.136 (talk) 19:14, 20 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Predation

@Heh0002: You are changing which species are listed here, not just "filling in" their scientific names. Your edit is unsourced. UtherSRG (talk) 21:14, 20 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Previous version:

Known predators of New England cottontails include weasels (Mustela), domestic cats (Felis catus), true foxes (Vulpes), birds of prey (Falconiformes), coyotes (Canis latrans), and bobcats (Lynx rufus).^[1] Past predators may have included gray wolves (Canis lupus), eastern cougars (Puma concolor), wolverines (Gulo gulo), and Canada lynx (Lynx canadensis). To avoid predators, the New England cottontails run for cover; "freeze" and rely on their cryptic coloration; or, when running, follow a zig-zag pattern to confuse the predator. Because New England cottontail habitat is small and has less vegetative cover, they must forage more often in the open, leaving them vulnerable.^[1]

Your version:

Known predators of New England cottontails include weasels (Mustela and Neogale sp.), domestic cats (Felis catus), red foxes (Vulpes vulpes), birds of prey (Falconiformes), coyotes (Canis latrans), and bobcats (Lynx rufus).^[1] Past predators may have included eastern wolves (Canis lycaon), eastern cougars (Puma concolor couguar), wolverines (Gulo gulo), and Canada lynx (Lynx canadensis). To avoid predators, the New England cottontails run for cover; "freeze" and rely on their cryptic coloration; or, when running, follow a zig-zag pattern to confuse the predator. Because New England cottontail habitat is small and has less vegetative cover, they must forage more often in the open, leaving them vulnerable.^[1]

Do you have a source to justify these changes? (Bolding mine to show the changes.) - UtherSRG (talk) 21:16, 20 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]

This page [1] is a good source for some listed. As for the changes, there are two representatives of Mustela present in the region (M. richardsonii and M. nivalis) as well as one from another genus, Neogale frenata. All three are referred to as weasels in their common names (short-tailed weasel, least weasel, and long-tailed weasel respectively).

There is only one representative of Vulpes native to the region, and that is the red fox, V. vulpes. So that is unequivocal (especially with the source I linked above).

Eastern wolves were native to all the states the New England cottontail is currently found in, so I changed that scientific name. Same with the eastern cougar, which cannot be argued against because all North American cougars are of the P. c. couguar subspecies.

There is my reasoning. Heh0002 (talk) 21:48, 20 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Please include the reference in your edits to justify them. Any unsourced edits can and will be reverted. Save us the hassle of going through this by supplying the references when you make changes. The website you posted doesn't state any of this. You can't go by "But I know this". You must prove it with references. You haven't done that. - UtherSRG (talk) 14:09, 21 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]

References

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d Cite error: The named reference Berenson was invoked but never defined (see the help page).

I've proved at least the Vulpes edit. All the other animals added were added in by another editor. I'm just here to update the scientific names to their appropriate taxonomic names; I'm not here to say what is and isn't true. You can delete the unsourced stuff, I don't care for it, since I didn't write it. Heh0002 (talk) 22:12, 21 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]

[Berenson-1] Cite error: The named reference Berenson was invoked but never defined (see the help page).

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