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Wiki Education assignment: BISC 2 Genetics, Ecology, and Evolution
[edit]This article was the subject of a Wiki Education Foundation-supported course assignment, between 21 August 2023 and 15 December 2023. Further details are available on the course page. Student editor(s): Andyvrabel (article contribs). Peer reviewers: Pintobean9.
— Assignment last updated by IRiptide (talk) 20:59, 3 November 2023 (UTC)
I Plan to adding health issues, where do they live, unhealthy diet, different types, type of teeth carnivores have
[edit]Hello I am Andy Vrabel a college student, I plan on adding whats in the top part. Andyvrabel (talk) 20:47, 20 October 2023 (UTC)
- Hello, and welcome to Wikipedia. It's important to familiarize yourself with Wikipedia's standards and policies. Unfortunately I have had to revert (remove) your additions to the article. Everything in WP must be based upon reliable sources. There are different levels of source quality, and it's important that additions and sources be relevant and appropriate to the content of the article. Narrative additions to articles will frequently be reverted, because it's impossible to know if the information is true and accurate without a source provided. You might wish to visit Contributing to Wikipedia to get an overview of what is expected in editing articles.
- Wikipedia can be exceptionally difficult to 'navigate' as a new editor; it's good to become familiar with the basic requirements for additions to articles, as well as visiting some of the guides and tutorials found at the 'contributing' page. One thing that you can always do is simply post your proposed additions here, where you can get feedback on them before adding them to the public-facing encyclopedia. cheers. anastrophe, an editor he is. 23:16, 20 October 2023 (UTC)
Carnivores on non-meat diets in domestic/captivity
[edit]My addition below has been removed before, so let's discuss why this should be included or not. What carnivores eat in practice is described very well in the page in general. What is otherwise missing is if carnivores have to eat meat. This is easy to misinterpret from this page, and the notable counter examples help avoiding that misinterpretation, by showing that being a member of a carnivorous species does not always require that individual to eat animal tissue.
The section in question:
In captivity or domestic settings, obligate carnivores like cats and crocodiles can in principle get all their required nutrients from processed food made from plant and synthetic sources.[1][2]
As to the coment that the sources are not scientific, the Guardian article references the primary research directly.
- ^ Devlin, Hannah; correspondent, Hannah Devlin Science (2023-09-13). "Cats may get health benefits from vegan diet, study suggests". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 2024-04-06.
- ^ "Crocodiles in Zimbabwe fed vegetarian diet to make better handbags". The Telegraph. 2014-04-08. Retrieved 2024-04-06.
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