Talk:Ringtail

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Title

Shouldn't we rename the article to be Ringtail, with Ring-tailed cat as a redirect, as this is a misnomer? Arw36 (talk) 16:35, 13 December 2018 (UTC)

Agreed, but many people automatically think you're talking about the lemurs or their raccoon cousins when you say "Ringtail". Still, glad someone finally made the change! BiostarsMC (talk) 21:33, 20 April 2021 (UTC)

Subspecies

Does anyone know how to put the subspecies names in each column instead of stuck together in one paragraph? Cynops 16:03, 26 March 2007 (UTC)

Enfield Road

I removed this line: "They are often seen on Enfield Road in Austin, Texas." Seems like original research —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.53.163.211 (talk) 16:51, 21 October 2007 (UTC)

Don't know about Enfield Road, but if they're seen around Yellowstone National Park, wouldn't that mean that their range includes Wyoming (thus the earlier statement is incomplete)... jmdeur 21:30 7 May 2008 (UTC) —Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.148.60.151 (talk)

Does it live in groups?

Does it live in groups like a colony? This should be added to the article. --AveMaria02 (talk) 05:30, 10 July 2010 (UTC)

Ubuntu 13.04 mascot

Someone should mention that this animal was chosen as the mascot for Ubuntu 13.04 'Raring Ringtail', as letter R was in queue. Prooflink (Shuttleworth's blog) — Preceding unsigned comment added by 188.242.183.33 (talk) 18:54, 25 April 2013 (UTC)

Such a statement belongs in the software article, not the animal article. Feel free to link to here from there if the reader is curious.WTucker (talk) 02:06, 30 May 2013 (UTC)

Smaller than a housecat?

really? doesn't look smaller than the average housecat to me. also, the avg housecat won't take on much aside from a mouse or small bird while this thing supposedly eats rats and similar size prey. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 99.204.186.92 (talk) 17:08, 11 November 2013 (UTC)

^ Most animals of this size/body plan can & do kill prey larger than themselves, look at most Mustelids.

They are smaller than housecats, at least by weight (~ 2 lbs to a housecats 8 lbs) also I would argue even more agile. Arw36 (talk) 16:37, 13 December 2018 (UTC)

{{subst:Rm|Ringtail|current2=Ringtail|new2=Ringtail (disambiguation)|reason=This is the only species known by the name "ringtail" alone; other topics by this name are either hyphenated or already disambiguated and clearly not the [[WP:PRIMARYTOPIC], which this one seems to be; and the present name is a misleading folk name, like "horny toad" for the horned lizard or referring to apes as "monkeys".}}

Requested move 11 September 2021

The following is a closed discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. Editors desiring to contest the closing decision should consider a move review after discussing it on the closer's talk page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

The result of the move request was: moved. —usernamekiran (talk) 15:02, 20 September 2021 (UTC)

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• Ring-tailed cat → Ringtail
• Ringtail → Ringtail (disambiguation)

– The species Ringtail is a fairly unambiguous primary subject. The two pages currently bearing parenthetical variations are both stubs and obscure. Additionally Ring-tailed cat is a misnomer that is not to my knowledge in common usage, it is certainly less common than "Ringtail" At the very least, Ring-tailed cat should be changed to "Ringtail(animal), however even in that case, i think it makes sense to treat it as the primary subject, if even via a redirect. GayCoonie (talk) 16:03, 11 September 2021 (UTC)

• Agree with the above. Note that despite being under the title "ringtail cat", the article has exclusively used "ringtail" in the lede (incl. first instance caps) and throughout the text almost since it was first published (2007+), and I don't see records of any challenges to that. On the side, the slightly confusing log of a previous move in 2011 was just a downcasing. --Elmidae (talk · contribs) 17:20, 11 September 2021 (UTC)
• Also agree to both moves. – BhagyaMani (talk) 18:46, 11 September 2021 (UTC)

The discussion above is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

Idaho Records

A ringtail was captured and tagged in Idaho on December 16 2021 in Twin Falls, Idaho. This is "as quoted" by Lyn Snoddy, regional wildlife biologist for Idaho Department of Fish and Game’s Magic Valley Region, and by the Department of Fish and Game : the fifth record of a ringtail in Idaho. The first was in 1967.

I say "as quoted" because I left the article to do something and boom those newspapers with only one free reading popped up [so I couldn't copy paste the quote]. Anyways, I had taken the reference. The article also presents a picture of the captured ringtail and a video of the ringtail in the wild.

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