Wikipedia:Today's featured article/requests/Short-beaked echidna

Short-beaked echidna

 * This is the archived discussion of the TFAR nomination for the article below. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as Wikipedia talk:Today's featured article/requests). Please do not modify this page.

The result was: scheduled for Today's featured article/June 11, 2023 by Wehwalt (talk) 17:06, 1 May 2023 (UTC)



The short-beaked echidna is one of four living species of echidna. It is covered in fur and spines, has a distinctive snout to help detect its surroundings, and uses a specialized tongue to catch insects. The short-beaked echidna has extremely strong front limbs and claws, which allow it to burrow quickly. It repels predators by curling into a ball and deters them with its spines. During the Australian winter, it goes into deep torpor and hibernation. As the temperature increases, it emerges to mate. Female echidnas lay one egg a year and the mating period is the only time the solitary animals meet. A newborn echidna grows rapidly on its mother's milk and is expelled into the mother's burrow when they grow too large for the mother's pouch. They leave the burrow when they are around six months old. The species is found throughout Australia and in coastal and highland regions of eastern New Guinea. It is not threatened with extinction, but human activities have reduced its distribution in Australia.
 * Most recent similar article(s): Beavers, another mammal, was TFA April 7.
 * Main editors: is the FAC nominator
 * Promoted: December 20, 2005, Satisfactory at URFA/2020 November 23, 2020.
 * Reasons for nomination: South Asian river dolphin is at WP:TFAP for October, so July is a good half-way point for mammals to appear as TFA. This was also declared satisfactory a few years ago, so I'm hoping this can run before that declaration becomes outdated. This would be a TFA re-run.
 * Support as nominator. Z1720 (talk) 23:10, 30 April 2023 (UTC)