Talk:Tuatara/to do
- add details about brain and heart (referred to in the text but no detail given yet)
- provide solid references for the anatomy section
- When was S. guntheri accepted as a separate species?
- rediscovery of old type specimen
- format journal refs with DOI and PMID (PMID not needed if DOI provides an abstract)
- but prefer whatever offers a free download
- determine whether Brothers Island tuatara has an apostrophe, and use this spelling throughout
- table of features believed to be ancestral to which taxonomic group (see talk page)
- preferred food: giant wētā
- superficial similarity to agamids and iguanids
- where are the eggs laid and incubated?
- Edit the temporal range - the tuatara has been around since the Mesozoic, but the info-box says only Pleistocene - Recent
- spellcheck when all is done
- Graphics
- add top view to skull drawing
- verify contents of http://sattagis1.dza.fc.ul.pt/~amaral/ilustracoes/slides/Tuatara.html and produce a free alternative
- Audio
- what noises do they make? -> provide an audio sample
- Sections to expand
- Conservation
- Zoos (good detail about space requirements here)
- Captive breeding
- mention Recovery plan versions 1 and 2, administrative aspects
- Releases
- Mainland releases: fencing
- Determine the outcome of the following conservation plans
- The 2001-2011 Recovery Plan, published in 2001, states that eradication of rats from [Little Barrier Island] is pending.
- Another rodent eradication was carried out on the Rangitoto Islands east of D’Urville Island, to prepare for the release of 432 Cook Strait tuatara juveniles in 2004, which were being raised at Victoria University as of 2001.
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