Talk:American Rhea
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[edit] Contradiction
I added the contradiction tag because these 2 sentences are in the first paragraph: "Farmers sometimes consider them pests, because they will eat almost any crop plant." "They do not eat most crop plants, but they will eat brassicas (cabbage, and baby chard and bok choi) if very hungry soybean leaves."
I do not know which one is correct, so could someone with knowledge of this animal's behaviour cleanup the first paragraph to clarify the contradiction? thanks. Davelapo555 19:26, 3 April 2007 (UTC)
[edit] General quality
This article has quite a few inaccuracies and unsupported statements and really needs a rewrite. I've done a little, but a good bit more needs doing. To summarise:
- Need information and discussion of subspecies, including conservation status, differences, and which are kept in captivity.
- Lots of links missing – fixed all I could see.
- Contradiction in conservation status... Is it "of special concern", or "only near-threatened", or is near-threatened not "only"?
- I've changed "corn" to cereal, as it was not clear whether the American sense of corn (maize) or the British one was meant. The sense implied more than one kind of "corn", so I've changed it to the more general British sense at the moment.
- Chard is not a brassica, it's a beet, so I've taken out "brassica" and left it as a list. Needs a ref though.
- Need evidence for an unusually strong immune system. Either way, "incredible" is not the right adjective for a credible encyclopedia... It's also not clear how a strong immune system does relate to the stated uses.
- Various other queries... We need to know more about the patenting of use as an energy supplement (how can you patent a food..?). We need the name of the "American woman" and more details of her work/campaign, including how use as a farm animal ensures long term survival in the wild (as they are already farmed and kept as pets, they are hardly endangered in captivity).
If the food claims cannot be supported, it may be that a discussion of folk beliefs about benefits of rhea products might be appropriate.--Richard New Forest 09:56, 14 October 2007 (UTC)
