User talk:Kid Evil 1/Research

Copy write

Diets listed are not patented or copywriten. Therefore it is free for everyone to use. There is little format changes to be made, but not much.

—The preceding unsigned comment was added by KollanH (talk • contribs) 01:25, 6 December 2006 (UTC).

from New Guinea

My understanding is that the gliders being bred as pets in the US derive from Indonesia, which controls West Papua and no doubt much easier to export wildlife from than Australia. So these gliders don't represent a "legal or illegal" export from Australia as stated in the article.

I would expect that if the US gliders were known to be derived illegally from Australia, knowing Australia they would get US authorities to shut the pet trade down (as "proceeds of crime" perhaps?).

bona fide

What does Bona-fide mean? Bawolff 04:00, 24 Jan 2005 (UTC)

• genuine, not fake, the real deal, authentic [1] --ZayZayEM 12:54, 24 Jan 2005 (UTC)

thanks Bawolff 23:40, 25 Jan 2005 (UTC)

legal as pets?

Like all native creatures they are protected by law in Australia where it is illegal to keep them as pets

Not all native animals are protected by law in Australia, and it is legal to keep some of them as pets (in some states) -- Danny Yee 09:54, 31 October 2005 (UTC)

Bergmann's Rule?

Northern forms tend to be brown coloured rather than grey and, as predicted by Bergmann's Rule, smaller.

Er, the article on Bergmann's rule states that animals in northern regions will be larger than southern forms. Are northern forms of the sugar glider an exception, and thus smaller, or did the article mean to say "larger"? 66.176.44.210 04:05, 17 October 2005 (UTC)

• The Bergmann's article states that animals in animals in colder areas are likely to be larger. That's only north depending on where you are. Unlike the Bergmann's Rule examples, Australia is south of the equator, so the northern areas should logically be warmer and the animals smaller. Indium 05:23, 18 October 2005 (UTC)

1c

Is it right that this was on the 1c coin? It seems that it used to be on the page because of the wikipedia mirrors I saw on google. ---- Astrokey44|talk 12:35, 9 December 2005 (UTC)

If you look at the page history http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Sugar_Glider&action=history you'll see that that was removed because it was actually the Feather-tailed glider on the 1c coin. (I don't know if that is correct, but the editor who removed it presumably knew what they were doing.) -- Danny Yee 12:58, 9 December 2005 (UTC)

a separate page Sugar Gliders as pets?

Should we have a separate page Sugar Gliders as pets, to keep the information for owners in one place, separate from the general biology? -- Danny Yee 00:25, 6 December 2006 (UTC)

You need to be careful with pet sections for animals. It can't be a how-to guide as to how to keep the pet. Check out Australian Green Tree Frog#As a pet as an example of how it should be done. Thanks. --liquidGhoul 00:31, 6 December 2006 (UTC)

That's what I'm worried about with this article. It's becoming too much of a "how to". I'm only really interested in the general biology myself. -- Danny Yee 00:35, 6 December 2006 (UTC)

If someone wants to write about keeping them as a pet, I would recommend Wikibooks, but they have to keep it verified, and not break copyright laws. Also, I would be watching it like a hawk, as I am sick of websites giving misinformation about pet care, and I don't want Wikimedia to contribute. --liquidGhoul 00:50, 6 December 2006 (UTC)

Redundant ?

...but there are plants that are safe to have in a sugar glider environment. If "certain plants are poisonous to sugar gliders", then it would stand to reason there are other plants that are not. Xnuiem 00:36, 20 January 2007 (UTC)