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A user with 3,495 edits. Account created on 6 November 2006.
25 April 2024
- 07:5707:57, 25 April 2024 diff hist +1 Mooreeffoc Clicked the last edit too soon. Removed {{self-published|date=July 2017}} and notabillity issues as there is academic work cited now on this topic current Tag: Visual edit
- 07:5607:56, 25 April 2024 diff hist −85 Mooreeffoc No edit summary Tag: 2017 wikitext editor
23 April 2024
- 15:5715:57, 23 April 2024 diff hist +136 Scotopic vision Add brief summary sentence of the new section on its lack of effect on higher visual perception with citation Tag: Visual edit
- 15:5415:54, 23 April 2024 diff hist +650 Scotopic vision →Resolution: Add section with citation noting scotopic vision does not affect higher level visual perception Tag: Visual edit
20 April 2024
- 16:5016:50, 20 April 2024 diff hist +687 Whiskers →Function: add with citation that whiskers in rats detect wind Tag: Visual edit
- 16:4716:47, 20 April 2024 diff hist +144 Whiskers →Function: provided correct full citation and removed [full citation needed] as no longer needed Tag: Visual edit
- 16:4516:45, 20 April 2024 diff hist +683 Taxis →Examples: add with citation rat anemotactic turning linked to specialized wind detecting whiskers current Tag: Visual edit
19 April 2024
- 13:4013:40, 19 April 2024 diff hist +2 Statocyst corrected my previous edit from mollusca to gastropod as I notice the first animal type, bivalues in the list is also a mollusca (my citation concerned a swimming sea slug). I also reordered list to maintain it as alphabetic. current Tag: Visual edit
- 04:0804:08, 19 April 2024 diff hist +352 Statocyst add mollusca as another group with statocysts with citation Tag: Visual edit
- 04:0404:04, 19 April 2024 diff hist +501 Clione limacina →Description: Add detail with ref to its swimming using gravity-sensing organs current Tag: Visual edit
16 April 2024
- 16:2316:23, 16 April 2024 diff hist +896 Fingerprint →Fingerprint identification: add detail with science journal citation about new research on deep learning neural network identification of fingerprints that calls into question some present ideas current Tag: Visual edit
15 April 2024
- 15:4315:43, 15 April 2024 diff hist +594 Thermal comfort add with ref that people are highly sensitive to even slight differences in environmental temperature Tag: Visual edit
- 15:4015:40, 15 April 2024 diff hist +596 Room temperature →Comfort temperatures: add with reference the detail humans are extremely sensitive to even very small temperature differences current Tag: Visual edit
- 15:2515:25, 15 April 2024 diff hist +406 Anatomy of the cerebellum →Gross anatomy: add ref for surface area of the cerebellum from the most reliable and uptodate source (in its Table 1) Tag: Visual edit
- 15:2315:23, 15 April 2024 diff hist +262 Cerebellum →Gross anatomy: Changed previous statement of area of 500 sq cm to 730 sq cm. This is the figure in Table 1 of "A multimodal submillimeter MRI atlas of the human cerebellum". This 2024 findings is more likely correct than the 2004 given. Tag: Visual edit
10 April 2024
- 17:1017:10, 10 April 2024 diff hist +489 Melon (cetacean) →Description: add with citation to peer review journal Gene that the melon derives from the masseter muscle (a redundant tissue that got redeployed since toothed whale do not chew) current Tag: Visual edit
- 16:5616:56, 10 April 2024 diff hist +620 Masseter muscle →In other animals: note the masseter muscle tissue with cited peer review source has formed the bases of the melon in toothed whales Tag: Visual edit
5 April 2024
- 09:0509:05, 5 April 2024 diff hist +50 Human echolocation →Background: add that it was Denis Diderot that reported echolocation in 1749 Tag: Visual edit
3 April 2024
- 08:3508:35, 3 April 2024 diff hist +522 Thomas Graham Brown →Life and academic work: add citation for claim his work on reflexes and posture was ignored; also corrected two citations that had error status current Tag: Visual edit
31 March 2024
- 11:2411:24, 31 March 2024 diff hist +259 Carl Richard Moore add citation for his contribution to spermatogenesis current Tag: Visual edit
- 11:2311:23, 31 March 2024 diff hist +356 Testicle →Temperature regulation and responses: noted that Carl Richard Moore (with citation) was the first to link external testicles and spermatogenesis current Tag: Visual edit
27 March 2024
- 09:2109:21, 27 March 2024 diff hist +650 Siamang →Role of calling: add detail about laryngeal air sacs in siamang with citation Tags: nowiki added Visual edit
16 March 2024
- 15:2815:28, 16 March 2024 diff hist +487 Beta wave edit lead: they are not a type but a range of oscilations which reflect different processes with different functions see cited article Tag: Visual edit
14 March 2024
- 17:1017:10, 14 March 2024 diff hist +45 Thalamus The previous 1st sentence does not make sense: how can the thalamus be "located in the dorsal part of the diencephalon" when it forms it. "on the lateral walls of the third ventricle" repeats the clearer 1st sentence description of the thalamus in García‑Cabezas Mapping the primate thalamus Brain Structure and Function 2023 10.1007/s00429-022-02598-4 Tag: Visual edit
- 14:4814:48, 14 March 2024 diff hist −4,135 User:LittleHow/sandbox clean sandbox current Tags: Blanking 2017 wikitext editor
- 07:2007:20, 14 March 2024 diff hist +106 List of individual apes →Science and exploration: added Peter (chimpanzee) to the new article on him Tag: Visual edit
- 07:1307:13, 14 March 2024 diff hist +59 Peter (chimpanzee) →Biography: a few more changes to improve the article Tag: Visual edit
- 06:4506:45, 14 March 2024 diff hist +8,035 Peter (chimpanzee) added many more details and new sections Tag: Visual edit
13 March 2024
- 18:1318:13, 13 March 2024 diff hist −14,972 User:LittleHow/sandbox No edit summary Tag: Visual edit
- 18:1118:11, 13 March 2024 diff hist +35 Peter (chimpanzee) add category "Vaudeville performers" as I do not see why this should be confined to humans given his stage act was noted as and fulfills all the criteria of being a Vaudeville performance. Tag: 2017 wikitext editor
- 18:0718:07, 13 March 2024 diff hist +15,230 N Peter (chimpanzee) Article on Peter a chimpanzee significant because of the research done on him (and I will later further add, who inspired later research attempts to teach apes in America) and as a possible inspiration for Kafka's short story on an ape with the same with many similarities to him Tag: Visual edit
- 17:4717:47, 13 March 2024 diff hist −17 User:LittleHow/sandbox →References Tag: 2017 wikitext editor
- 17:4617:46, 13 March 2024 diff hist +53 User:LittleHow/sandbox No edit summary Tag: 2017 wikitext editor
- 17:4217:42, 13 March 2024 diff hist +10,259 User:LittleHow/sandbox No edit summary Tag: Visual edit
- 15:1115:11, 13 March 2024 diff hist +987 User:LittleHow/sandbox No edit summary Tag: Visual edit
- 14:1514:15, 13 March 2024 diff hist +3,478 User:LittleHow/sandbox No edit summary Tag: Visual edit
- 11:0811:08, 13 March 2024 diff hist −8 m A Report to an Academy remove repeated "planned" Tag: Visual edit
- 11:0711:07, 13 March 2024 diff hist +217 A Report to an Academy add the newspaper citation promised in my last edit Tag: Visual edit
- 11:0511:05, 13 March 2024 diff hist +218 User:LittleHow/sandbox No edit summary Tag: Visual edit
- 10:3710:37, 13 March 2024 diff hist +405 A Report to an Academy →Analysis: I'm creating an article for Peter (chimpanzee). This will include newspaper reports (some full page) which note his earlier performances in Europe. I will return to this page and add a citation to those detailing he presence in Eurpose once I get the hang of doing referencing to newspapers Tag: Visual edit
12 March 2024
- 16:0116:01, 12 March 2024 diff hist +108 Lightner Witmer →First psychological clinic: the discussion of Witmer's research on apes is mistaken (he did not teach nor test their ability to read). I link to the paper of his detailing his work I previously added Tag: Visual edit
- 15:4415:44, 12 March 2024 diff hist +265 Lightner Witmer →References: add citation to his paper A monkey with a Mind Tag: 2017 wikitext editor
11 March 2024
- 17:0117:01, 11 March 2024 diff hist +1,152 Serra da Capivara National Park add with reference that capuchins here use the largest known variety of tools such this primate current Tag: Visual edit
- 05:4205:42, 11 March 2024 diff hist −1 Plain-tailed wren →Physical: add another detail from the citation I earlier added (it is from its Table 1 "Selected Measurements of Members of the Thryothorus euophrys Complex" Tag: Visual edit
9 March 2024
- 15:2615:26, 9 March 2024 diff hist +47 Pedunculopontine nucleus added references to support assertions in Lead current Tag: Visual edit
- 15:2315:23, 9 March 2024 diff hist +221 Pedunculopontine nucleus Rewrote lead so it concisely stated main facts. Moved sentences contained too much detait for the lead to the Projections sections which I expand into Structure and projections. Tag: Visual edit
5 March 2024
- 17:1217:12, 5 March 2024 diff hist 0 Synapse →Types: Moved my last addition to a section which I think is more suitable Tag: Visual edit
- 17:0717:07, 5 March 2024 diff hist +761 Synapse →Types: A recent PNAS paper reports mechanical tension plays a role in synapse firing. I have added a brief note of this with citation. I am not sure it is in the best place. But this fact (particularly given its PNAS provenance) needs a mention somewhere. It is an important and unexpected discovery Tag: Visual edit
4 March 2024
- 14:3414:34, 4 March 2024 diff hist +649 Koko (gorilla) →Use of language: add detail with source citation that her vocalizations seemed voluntary and were somewhat unique in being combined with her gestures Tag: Visual edit
2 March 2024
- 05:5905:59, 2 March 2024 diff hist −180 Black-backed jackal →Diet: The paragraph on diet was excessively long. I reorganized it and divided it up into one paragraph detailing with what they eat; another how this differed in different parts of Africa; another focused on how they eat and lastly one on their role in dispersing the seeds of a plant. Tag: Visual edit
