Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/File:Trachylepis maculilabris mating.jpg

Trachylepis maculilabris mating edit

Original - Trachylepis maculilabris – Speckle-lipped Skinks mating. Pictured in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania

Reason: Good quality and EV. The only lizard mating picture I have seen on wikipedia. Image gives a sense of the natural rocky lizard habitat as well. Also, lizards seem to be doing well at FPC
Articles in which this image appears: Trachylepis, Skink, Reptile, Squamata
Creator: Muhammad Mahdi Karim

Support as nominator --Muhammad(talk) 17:57, 18 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Support. It looks like business time is just beginning, since they aren't quite lined up right yet, but this shot shows behaviour, including the male biting the female, and the clear differences in size, very clearly, and has very high EV. Sabine's Sunbird talk 21:33, 18 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Support - per Sabine's Sunbird. (and despite of being a bit intrusive into their private sphere :) Elekhh (talk) 05:54, 19 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]
- Wikipedia is not censored. :P Sabine's Sunbird talk 06:34, 19 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]
  - You wouldn't try to censor an image on Wikipedia of yourself mating then, I assume... ;-) Ðiliff «» (Talk) 10:17, 19 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]
    - But in most countries you can only photograph people legally when they don't have a reasonable expectation of privacy. You need a model release for certain uses though. Therefore I think Sabine's Sunbird will be safe provided he/she doesn't mate in the street. Noodle snacks (talk) 03:59, 20 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]
      - Indeed. :-) Obviously the critters are in need of a PETA campaign to protect their privacy! Ðiliff «» (Talk) 09:40, 20 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]
        So PETA strips off their clothes and privacy to protect the animals'? --Muhammad(talk) 12:17, 20 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]
        Well, if PETA choose to strip in public, then they are giving away their right to privacy, but an animal doesn't have the same choice (or indeed a home in which to be private). Anyway, we're getting silly and way off topic! ;-) Ðiliff «» (Talk) 12:51, 20 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Support. Good EV. Ðiliff «» (Talk) 10:17, 19 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Support per nom. Noodle snacks (talk) 03:59, 20 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Support: Rare and encyclopaedic. --Redtigerxyz ^Talk 13:54, 25 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Support per nom.--Sabri76'^message 08:43, 27 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Promoted File:Trachylepis maculilabris mating.jpg —Maedin\^talk 21:15, 27 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]