Talk:Panama cross-banded tree frog

Wiki Education assignment: Behavioral Ecology 2022

This article was the subject of a Wiki Education Foundation-supported course assignment, between 30 August 2022 and 9 December 2022. Further details are available on the course page. Student editor(s): Lvanzen3 (article contribs). Peer reviewers: B1deng, Hoonji2022.

— Assignment last updated by Qazwsx1515 (talk) 21:08, 15 November 2022 (UTC)

Changes to habitat and distribution

I feel like this section should have information on what countries this frog is found in. This information is already in the introduction section and I think it would be good to include it in the habitat and distribution section.

"S. sila is found in the lowlands of south west Costa Rica, Panama, and Northern Colombia and prefer..."

I also think the section should include what elevation the frogs are usually found at.

"These frogs are found between the elevations of 10-970 m."

Qazwsx1515 (talk) 21:35, 17 October 2022 (UTC)

Formatting Edits

I revised the “Close Relatives and Hybridization” section by creating a “Population Structure, Speciation, and Phylogeny” section and adding the original section as a subsection. I also moved the “Conservation” section at the end of the entry in between the “Habitat and Distribution” and “Population Structure, Speciation, and Phylogeny” sections to make the chronological reading of the entry easier. Overall, I found the discussion of the frog's acoustic calls to be thoughtful and informative. A suggestion would be to include a discussion on the physiological mechanisms explaining the production of the frog's call signals. ~~~~ Hoonji2022 (talk) 20:44, 18 October 2022 (UTC)

Peer Review

Overall, I think that this article is very through and well-written, especially the sections about the frog's cryptic acoustic calls! One small thing I changed was the section header from "male calling" to "mate calling", to make it more clear what the purpose of the calls is. I also found an additional journal source talking about this frog's parasites. So I added a sentence, as well as the corresponding citation, to the parasite section talking about it. I was wondering, however, if there was any more information you could add to the diet section because it appears a bit wanting. B1deng (talk) 22:50, 20 October 2022 (UTC)

Did you know nomination

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The result was: promoted by Theleekycauldron (talk) 17:20, 26 October 2022 (UTC)

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Smilisca sila, the Panama cross-banded tree frog

• ... that Panama cross-banded tree frog (pictured) males synchronize their mating calls to confuse predators that locate them by sound? Source: Legett, Henry D.; Page, Rachel A.; Bernal, Ximena E. (2019-10-09). "Synchronized mating signals in a communication network: the challenge of avoiding predators while attracting mates". Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences. 286 (1912): 20191067. doi:10.1098/rspb.2019.1067. ISSN 0962-8452. PMC 6790779. PMID 31594513.
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5x expanded by Lvanzen3 (talk). Self-nominated at 00:32, 21 October 2022 (UTC).

• Hi, submitter of the DYK here. Totally forgot to hyperlink the species name back to its Wiki page. Am I able to edit that now, or do I need to resubmit? Lvanzen3 (talk) 00:35, 21 October 2022 (UTC)
  • Yes, you can edit hooks (but I've already taken care of it).  MANdARAX  XAЯAbИAM  21:28, 21 October 2022 (UTC)

General: Article is new enough and long enough
New enough: Long enough:

Policy: Article is sourced, neutral, and free of copyright problems
Adequate sourcing: Neutral: Free of copyright violations, plagiarism, and close paraphrasing:

Hook: Hook has been verified by provided inline citation
Cited: Interesting:

Image: Image is freely licensed, used in the article, and clear at 100px.
Freely licensed: Used in article: Clear at 100px:

QPQ: None required.

Overall: Nomination came in a couple hours after the deadline (one week following the 5x expansion, dated from 22:28, 12 October 2022), but as the nominator is new to DYK, an extension is allowed per supplementary guideline D9. Overall this is a thorough and well-written article. Good job. gobonobo ^{+ c} 16:00, 26 October 2022 (UTC)