Wikipedia talk:Featured article candidates/Horseshoe bat/archive1

TFA blurb review[edit]

Enwebb and Sainsf: this one could use a blurb, if either of you wants to write one. (925 to 1025 characters, including 18 characters for "Full article" at the end). - Dank (push to talk) 20:44, 8 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Dank here's a starting point, though I've never written a blurb before. Tweak as needed. Enwebb (talk) 17:28, 9 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Excellent work ... I moved a couple of words around, I hope that works. - Dank (push to talk) 18:14, 9 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Dank, looks like another blurb was written today at Wikipedia:Today's featured article/January 7, 2021, so I posted this one on the talk page. Enwebb (talk) 18:36, 9 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]

My mistake, I forgot to check the January blurbs first. Your blurb looks very good. - Dank (push to talk) 19:08, 9 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Jim says he'll take your blurb. - Dank (push to talk) 19:41, 9 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Horseshoe bats are a family of more than 100 bat species. They are found throughout Africa, Asia, Europe, and Oceania. While many are brown, some species have black, reddish, or orange fur. They are small, weighing less than 30 g (1.1 oz), and are named after the horseshoe-shaped flap of skin on their noses, which helps them echolocate. They use echolocation to navigate and to forage for their prey of insects and spiders, maneuvering more slowly in flight than most bats. In colder regions, they hibernate during the winter months. Mating may occur in the spring or fall depending on the species, with gestation lasting about seven weeks before a single offspring is born. Typical lifespans are around six or seven years, though can be as long as thirty years for some individuals. Dozens of SARS-related coronaviruses have been documented in horseshoe bats, which are hunted for food in parts of sub-Saharan Africa and Southeast Asia. (Full article...)