User:Rlendog

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A little about me:

• Born - 1965 in Queens, New York
• Resides - New Jersey
• Sex - Male
• Marital Status - Married
• Children - 1 girl, born Feb. 2009
• Profession - life actuary
• College - State University of New York at Binghamton, New York University
• Majors - Accounting, Statistics and Operations Research
• Political Compass - Economic Left/Right +5.5 Social Libertarian/Authoritarian -0.97 [[1]]
• Favorite Sports Teams -

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[edit] Awards

It gives me great joy to award this Imperial Napoleonic triple crown to Rlendog for exceptional mainspace contributions to 5 pages in the area of WP:DYK, WP:GA, and WP:FC. Thank you very much for your generous time and diligence on behalf of the project. You are a Napoleon among editors. Yours, Cirt (talk) 20:33, 11 March 2009 (UTC)

Your majesty, it gives me great pleasure to bestow these Imperial triple crown jewels upon Rlendog for your contributions in the areas of WP:DYK, WP:GA, and WP:FC. Cirt (talk) 01:00, 11 December 2008 (UTC)

Your majesty, it gives me great pleasure to bestow the Triple Crown upon Rlendog for your contributions in the areas of WP:DYK, WP:GA, and WP:FA. Cirt (talk) 08:53, 7 October 2008 (UTC)

		The 50 DYK Medal
		Thank you for your many contributions to DYK, as seen at User:Rlendog/DYK. Your latest DYK contribution, Charles Leigh, is an informative piece and extremely well sourced. Thank you for your continued contributions in this capacity, which add encyclopedic value to the project. Cirt (talk) 04:32, 11 January 2009 (UTC)

		The Original Barnstar
		For being helpful and supportive of my work, as well as an all-around great editor and content creator. Visionholder (talk) 23:50, 29 October 2008 (UTC)

		The Fauna Barnstar
		For all your hard work creating, expanding and tweaking primate articles including helping Primate achieve FA status, I award you the Fauna Barnstar! Jack (talk) 10:52, 4 December 2008 (UTC)

		The 25 DYK Medal
		Awarded to Rlendog for the 25 hooks that would not have appeared on DYK without him. From baseball bios to Springsteen songs to major missing mammals (& a few fish)—thank you for all you do! I look forward to the next 25. JayHenry (talk) 16:07, 13 September 2008 (UTC)

This editor is a Veteran Editor, and is entitled to display this Iron Editor Star.

[edit] Tree of Life Activities

[edit] Marine Mammals Seen in Wild

• Bottlenose Dolphin - Cape May, New Jersey; Guerrero Negro, Mexico
• Humpback Whale - Cape May, New Jersey; Boston, Massachusetts; Juneau, Alaska; Inside Passage, Alaska
• Gray Whale - Guerrero Negro, Mexico*
• Common Minke Whale - Boston, Massachusetts
• Fin Whale - Boston, Massachusetts
• Dall's Porpoise - Inside Passage, Alaska
• Sperm Whale - Roseau, Dominica
• Common Dolphin - St. George's, Grenada
• Atlantic Spotted Dolphin - St. George's, Grenada
• Pantropical Spotted Dolphin - St. George's, Grenada
• California Sea Lion - San Francisco, Calfornia; Guerrero Negro, Mexico
• Stellar Sea Lion - Skagway, Alaska
• Harbor Seal - Bolinas Lagoon, California; Tracy Arm, Alaska

High on my list of desired future encounters include killer whales, blue whales, right whales, pilot whales and spinner dolphins

[edit] Marine Mammals Seen in Captivity

• Bottlenose Dolphin - New York Aquarium, SeaWorld San Diego*, SeaWorld Orlando*, Hershey Park, Baltimore Aquarium, others
• Beluga Whale - New York Aquarium, Vancouver Aquarium*, SeaWorld San Diego, SeaWorld Orlando, Shedd Aquarium, Mystic Aquarium*
• Killer Whale - SeaWorld San Diego*, SeaWorld Orlando*
• Pacific White-Sided Dolphin - Vancouver Aquarium, Shedd Aquarium, SeaWorld Orlando
• Common Dolphin - SeaWorld San Diego*
• Pilot Whale - SeaWorld San Diego*
• False Killer Whale - SeaWorld Orlando*
• California Sea Lion - many venues
• Stellar Sea Lion - Vancouver Aquarium*, Mystic Aquarium
• Northern Fur Seal - Mystic Aquarium
• Harbor Seal - New York Aquarium, SeaWorld San Diego, SeaWorld Orlando, New Jersey State Aquarium, Vancouver Aquarium*, Mystic Aquarium
• Ringed Seal - SeaWorld San Diego
• Grey Seal - New York Aquarium
• Walrus - New York Aquarium, SeaWorld San Diego, SeaWorld Orlando

This user is a member of WikiProject Cetaceans.

[edit] Primates Seen in Wild

• White-Faced Capuchin - Manuel Antonio, Costa Rica
• Central American Squirrel Monkey - Manuel Antonio, Costa Rica
• Mantled Howler - Manuel Antonio, Costa Rica

High on my list of desired future encounters include Geoffroy's spider monkeys, Geoffroy's tamarins, wooly monkeys, and perhaps less realistically, chimpanzees, bonobos, gorillas, ring-tailed lemurs and Verreaux's Sifakas.

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[edit] Notable Birds Seen in Wild

• Bald Eagle - Ketchikan, Alaska
• Golden Eagle - Chester, Vermont
• Osprey - Guerrero Negro, Mexico
• Fiery-billed Aracari - Manuel Antonio, Costa Rica
• Chestnut-mandibled Toucan - Jaco, Costa Rica; Quepos, Costa Rica
• Orange-chinned Parakeet - Manuel Antonio, Costa Rica; Jaco, Costa Rica
• Scarlet Macaw - Carara National Park, Costa Rica; Jaco, Costa Rica
• Black-throated Trogon - Carara National Park, Costa Rica
• Anhinga - Carara National Park, Costa Rica
• Boat-billed Heron - Carara National Park, Costa Rica
• Bare-throated Tiger Heron - Carara National Park, Costa Rica
• Snowy Egret - New Orleans, Louisiana; Guerrero Negro, Mexico, Carara National Park, Costa Rica
• Roseate Spoonbill - Damas Island, Costa Rica
• Blue-crowned Motmot - Manuel Antonio, Costa Rica
• Scarlet-rumped Tanager - Manuel Antonio, Costa Rica
• Stick Bird - Manuel Antonio, Costa Rica
• Brown Pelican - St. Maarten

Also in Costa Rica, several turkey vultures, hummingbirds, hawks, flycatchers, tanagers and woodpeckers. High on the "to do" list are the harpy eagle, the Blue-and-gold Macaw and the Great Green Macaw

[edit] Other Notable Animals Seen in Wild

• American Alligator - New Orleans, Louisiana
• American Crocodile - Tarcoles River, Costa Rica; Damas Island, Costa Rica
• Spectacled Caiman - Manuel Antonio, Costa Rica
• Boa Constrictor - Manuel Antonio, Costa Rica
• Speckled Racer - Manuel Antonio, Costa Rica
• Hoffmann's Two-toed Sloth - Carara National Park, Costa Rica; Manuel Antonio, Costa Rica
• Brown-throated Three-toed Sloth - Manuel Antonio, Costa Rica
• Silky Anteater - Damas Island, Costa Rica
• Tamandua (roadkill unfortunately) - Pacific coast, Costa Rica
• Crab-eating Raccoon - Damas Island, Costa Rica
• Central American Agouti - Manuel Antonio, Costa Rica
• Common Basilisk - Manuel Antonio, Costa Rica
• Green Iguana - Manuel Antonio, Costa Rica; Damas Island, Costa Rica; Philipsburg, St. Maarten
• Black Iguana - Manuel Antonio, Costa Rica
• Green and Black Poison Arrow Frog - Carara National Park, Costa Rica
• Black Bear - Tracy Arm, Alaska
• White-tailed Deer - anywhere in New Jersey
• Blue Parrotfish - Kralendijk, Bonaire
• Stoplight Parrotfish - Kralendijk, Bonaire
• Sergeant Major - Aruba
• Siebold's Cichlid - Quepos, Costa Rica

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[edit] Tropical Fish Bred

[edit] Cichlids

1. Convict Cichlid (Amatitlania nigrofasciata)
2. Rainbow Cichlid (Archocentrus multispinosus)
3. Jewel Cichlid (Hemichromis bimaculatus )
4. Cutter's Cichlid (Cryptoheros septemfasciatus )
5. Nickie (Hypsophrys nicaraguensis)
6. Multie (Neolamprologus multifasciatus)
7. Caudo (Neolamprologus caudopunctatus)
8. Daffodil Cichlid (Neolamprologus pulcher)
9. Leleupi (Neolamprologus leleupi)
10. Cyp (Cyprichromis leptosoma)
11. Kribensis (Pelvicachromis pulcher)
12. Guenther's Mouthbrooder (Chromidotilapia guentheri)
13. Pelvicahromis cf. subocellatus

[edit] Catfish

1. Bronze Corydoras (Corydoras aeneus)
2. Peppered Corydoras (Corydoras paleatus)
3. Bristlenose Catfish (Ancistrus dolichopterus)
4. Hoplosternum littorale

[edit] Livebearers

1. Guppy (Poecilia reticulata)
2. Endler's Livebearer (Poecilia wingei)
3. Short-fin Molly (Poecilia sphenops)
4. Sailfin Molly (Poecilia latipinna)
5. Swordtail (Xiphophorus hellerii)
6. Platy (Xiphophorus maculatus)
7. Variatus Platy (Xiphophorus variatus)
8. Heterandria formosa
9. Mosquitofish (Gambusia affinis)
10. Butterfly Goodeid (Ameca splendens)
11. Redtail Goodeid (Xenotoca eiseni)

Currently working on Neet, Anomalochromis thomasi, Julidochromis dickfeldi and Lamprologus ocellatus.

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[edit] Arts and Entertainment Interests

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This user has been on Wikipedia for  2 years, 3 months, and 4 days.

This user has been a member of Wikipedia since April 7, 2007.

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