Forum:How do you request changes to article texts without having to edit a page?
Hello there,
I registered with Wikifur because I wanted to communicate an error I noticed on the page for kangaroos: http://en.wikifur.com/wiki/Kangaroo
The page contains a photograph with the following text below it: "An Eastern Grey Kangaroo (Macropus giganteus) - Gender:Male - laying on right side, head toward viewer, looking away"
The kangaroo in the foreground is not an eastern grey but a red kangaroo, you can tell by the distinctive fur pattern around the nose. I'm not able to determine his or her gender from this angle, but the individual is most likely a female, commonly known as a "blue flyer." There is a very distinct sexual dimorphism in red kangaroos in that the males have an orange-red coat while the females have fur that is soft bluish grey. The red colouring is influenced by hormone levels, as alpha male reds generally have the most distinctly orange-red fur. Males who are socially repressed or have been surgically desexed will often be lacking the red colour in their fur (when I performed volunteer work at a wildlife sanctuary they had a desexed male red whose fur was completely pale white, until the day he passed away from illness). I've also been told, though I have not seen this myself, of a group of all female red kangaroos where a socially dominant female began to exhibit a slight redding of her fur due to her social status.
I merely wanted to request that either the description or the photograph itself be amended, but I couldnt' find a "contact us" link or its equivalent.
- Hi there,
- The easiest way is to leave a message on the talk page of the article, but this forum post worked. I've changed the image caption to simply read "A Kangaroo lying down", since the description of species and sex seems to have come from the photograph as on Flickr, since deleted. -- Sine 17:25, 27 July 2011 (EDT)