Talk:Egyptian fruit bat

Wiki Education Foundation-supported course assignment
This article was the subject of a Wiki Education Foundation-supported course assignment, between 26 August 2019 and 14 December 2019. Further details are available on the course page. Student editor(s): Asanc445.

Above undated message substituted from Template:Dashboard.wikiedu.org assignment by PrimeBOT (talk) 20:18, 16 January 2022 (UTC)

Moved page
I've moved this page from Rousettus aegyptiacus, as animal pages are usually under their common name, and the scientific name redirects there. If you don't agree leave a note on my talk page. Cheers, Jack 15:53, 9 May 2007 (UTC)

External links modified (January 2018)
Hello fellow Wikipedians,

I have just modified one external link on Egyptian fruit bat. Please take a moment to review my edit. If you have any questions, or need the bot to ignore the links, or the page altogether, please visit this simple FaQ for additional information. I made the following changes:
 * Added archive https://web.archive.org/web/20070405150027/http://www.batconservation.org/content/Egyptianfruitbatinfo.html to http://www.batconservation.org/content/Egyptianfruitbatinfo.html

When you have finished reviewing my changes, you may follow the instructions on the template below to fix any issues with the URLs.

Cheers.— InternetArchiveBot  (Report bug) 07:01, 20 January 2018 (UTC)

Potential Changes
Hello fellow Wikipedia editors! I am currently drafting up some changes to include on this article to include some more information on the areas I think are needed. Which might potentially mean some re-organisation of some of the sections. Some of my planned changes will be on including new sections but putting some of the current sections as sub-sections to the new one. And possibly rephrasing some of the already included information with sourced points and such. I was hoping if that was alright for now. Thank you! --Asanc445 (talk) 10:59, 11 December 2019 (UTC)
 * , Great, looking forward to you making your edits. For some inspiration, you might want to look at Category:GA-Class Bat articles, as it has 21 articles about bats that have been rated as "Good Articles", meaning they've undergone a peer review. These would be good examples for you to follow.
 * My advice is to ensure that you cite everything you add! Happy to answer any questions you might have. Feel free to check out the Bats Task Force for additional resources. Thanks, Enwebb (talk) 18:08, 11 December 2019 (UTC)
 * My advice is to ensure that you cite everything you add! Happy to answer any questions you might have. Feel free to check out the Bats Task Force for additional resources. Thanks, Enwebb (talk) 18:08, 11 December 2019 (UTC)


 * Thank you for the advice and inspiration references Enwebb! I'll be adding some changes as of today, so I'll look forward in working with you and all the other editors for this page. I'll do my best to make sure that all the information I add is reliable. Thank you once again. --Asanc445 (talk) 19:04, 11 December 2019 (UTC)
 * , Excellent work so far! You should consider nominating this for a Good Article when you're finished (I'd be happy to help if you'd like). It's not a very rough process, and there are only six criteria to meet. Enwebb (talk) 21:17, 11 December 2019 (UTC)
 * Enwebb, Thank you so much for the comment and the suggestion. As of right now, I think I am mostly done in adding any more contributions for the article; therefore, if you believe that we should nominate this article, I would greatly appreciate the help. I also don't mind adding any additional information that might be necessary to suffice the criteria. Thank you! --Asanc445 (talk) 21:36, 11 December 2019 (UTC)
 * , I think it looks good enough to nominate. To do so, you should follow these instructions. The subtopic you want is Biology and medicine. Once you've nominated the article, I'll add myself as a co-nominator. Then we wait for someone to agree to do the peer review! Enwebb (talk) 16:52, 12 December 2019 (UTC)
 * I went ahead and nominated and listed you as co-nominator :) Enwebb (talk) 20:13, 17 December 2019 (UTC)

Navigation in Egyptian fruit bats
Hi! Egyptian fruit bats are one of few species used in navigation research, and they have been shown to navigate using place cells (source). Specifically, they were the first animal shown to have place cells that work in 3D (source). Additionally, they have social place cells, which indicate the place of other bats (source). I'm wondering if this would make an interesting additional section. I didn't want to mess up anything for the GA nomination, which is why I wanted to suggest it here first. Pinging and. Achaea (talk) 21:02, 19 December 2019 (UTC)
 * , that might be a nice addition to the #Relationship with humans sections. Go ahead and write something (& thanks for your interest in bats!) Enwebb (talk) 17:12, 22 December 2019 (UTC)