Horseshoe bats 

are a family of more than In the news

100 bat species. They are found throughout
Africa, Asia, Europe, and Oceania. While COVID-19 pandemic
many are brown, some species have black,  
reddish, or orange fur. They are small, Disease
weighing less than 30 g (1.1 oz), and are Virus
named after the horseshoe-shaped flap of By location
skin on their noses, which helps Impact
them echolocate. They use echolocation to Vaccines
navigate and to forage for their prey of Portal
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 they
can be as long as thirty years for some The United States Capitol
individuals. Dozens of SARS-related
coronaviruses have been documented in  Pro-Trump rioters storm the United
horseshoe bats, which are hunted for food States Capitol (pictured),
in parts of sub-Saharan Africa and disrupting certification of the
Southeast Asia. (Full article...) presidential election and
forcing Congress to evacuate.
Recently featured: 
 Homicide: Life on the
 In the United States,
Street (season 2)
the Democratic Party wins control of
 Pacific blue-eye
the Senate, with victories
 Skegness in regular and special
 Archive Senate elections in Georgia.
 By email
 More featured articles
 Saudi Arabia reopens its border
with Qatar, ending a three-year
Did you know ...
diplomatic crisis.
Ongoing: 
Indian farmers' protest
Tigray conflict
Recent deaths: 
Colin Bell
Albert Roux
Elena Santiago
Elmira Minita Gordon
Kay Ullrich
Dosan Ahn Chang Ho Memorial Interchange Bob Brett
 Nominate an article
 ... that construction of the Dosan
Ahn Chang Ho Memorial On this day
Interchange (pictured) in Los Angeles January 7: Christmas (Eastern
in the 1950s displaced an entire Christianity; Julian calendar); Victory over
neighborhood primarily inhabited by
 Genocide Day in Cambodia (1979)
people of color?

 ... that Australian and Greek troops

under Lieutenant Colonel Ian Ross
Campbell held off a force of over 1,000
German paratroops on Crete for ten
days?

 ... that when designing the

character Madoka Kaname, Ume
Aoki used Yuno, the protagonist of her
manga series Hidamari Sketch, as a
basis?

 ... that Elaine Van Blunk finished Jerry Rawlings

third at the 1994 Chicago Marathon, her
second marathon event?
 1797 – The first official Italian
tricolour was adopted by the
 ... that vaccines are commonly government of the Cispadane Republic.
administered via intramuscular
injection?
 1904 – The Marconi International
Marine Communication
 ... that KAVU-TV in Victoria, Texas, Company specified CQD as
did not know their signal was being the distress signal to be used by its
seen on cable in Corpus Christi until operators.
family of station employees living there
said that they had enjoyed that
 1939 – The French
morning's newscast?
physicist Marguerite
Perey identified francium, the last
 ... that arachnologist Ekaterina element first discovered in nature,
Andreeva wrote the first original rather than by synthesis.
monograph published in the USSR
about Central Asian spiders?
 1978 – An article entitled "Iran and
Red and Black Colonization" was
 ... that an obituary of Neil Peart said published in the
he was "sent to Earth to newspaper Ettela'at attacking Ruhollah
destroy drummer jokes"? Khomeini, then in exile in Iraq.
 Archive
 Start a new article  1993 – The Fourth Republic of
 Nominate an article Ghana was inaugurated with Jerry
Rawlings (pictured), the country's
former military ruler, as president.
Anna Murray Vail (b. 1863)
Helena Válková (b. 1951)
Caster Semenya (b. 1991)
More anniversaries: 
January 6
January 7
 January 8
 Archive
 By email
 List of days of the year

Today's featured picture

Millard
Fillmore (January 
7, 1800 –
March 8, 1874)
was the
13th president of
the United States,
succeeding to the
presidency in
July 1850 upon
the death of the
incumbent Zachar
y Taylor. Born
into poverty with
little formal
education, he
became a
successful
attorney and was
elected to
the United States
House of
Representatives in
1832. Never an
advocate of
slavery, he felt
duty-bound as
president to
support
the Compromise
of 1850 that
defused a political
confrontation
between slave and
free states. He
sought election to
a full term in
1852, but was
passed over by
the Whigs in
favor of Winfield
Scott. This line
engraving of
Fillmore was
produced around
 1902 by
the Department of
the
Treasury's Bureau
of Engraving and
Printing (BEP) as
part of a BEP
presentation
album of the first
26 presidents.
Engraving
credit: Bureau of
Engraving and
Printing; restored
by Andrew Shiva
Recently
featured: 
 The
Adoration of the
Kings
 Shah
Jahan
 Yellow-
faced honeyeater
Archive
 More
featured pictures

Other areas of Wikipedia

 Community portal – Bulletin board, projects, resources and activities covering a wide range
of Wikipedia areas.

 Help desk – Ask questions about using Wikipedia.

 Local embassy – For Wikipedia-related communication in languages other than English.

 Reference desk – Serving as virtual librarians, Wikipedia volunteers tackle your questions
on a wide range of subjects.

 Site news – Announcements, updates, articles and press releases on Wikipedia and the
Wikimedia Foundation.

 Village pump – For discussions about Wikipedia itself, including areas for technical issues
and policies.

Wikipedia's sister projects

Wikipedia is hosted by the Wikimedia Foundation, a non-profit organization that also hosts a range
of other projects:
 
Commons
Free media repository

 
MediaWiki
Wiki software development

 
Meta-Wiki
Wikimedia project coordination

 
Wikibooks
Free textbooks and manuals

 
Wikidata
Free knowledge base

 
Wikinews
Free-content news

 
Wikiquote
Collection of quotations

 
Wikisource
Free-content library

 
Wikispecies
Directory of species
 
Wikiversity
Free learning resources

 
Wikivoyage
Free travel guide

 
Wiktionary
Dictionary and thesaurus

Wikipedia languages
This Wikipedia is written in English. Many other Wikipedias are available; some of the largest are
listed below.

 1,000,000+ articles
o ‫العربية‬
o Deutsch
o Español
o Françai
Horseshoe bats are a family of more than In the news
100 bat species. They are found throughout
Africa, Asia, Europe, and Oceania. While COVID-19 pandemic
many are brown, some species have black,  
reddish, or orange fur. They are small, Disease
weighing less than 30 g (1.1 oz), and are Virus
named after the horseshoe-shaped flap of By location
skin on their noses, which helps Impact
them echolocate. They use echolocation to Vaccines
navigate and to forage for their prey of Portal
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 they
can be as long as thirty years for some The United States Capitol
individuals. Dozens of SARS-related
coronaviruses have been documented in  Pro-Trump rioters storm the United
horseshoe bats, which are hunted for food States Capitol (pictured),
in parts of sub-Saharan Africa and disrupting certification of the
presidential election and
Southeast Asia. (Full article...)
Recently featured: 
 Homicide: Life on the 
Street (season 2)
 Pacific blue-eye
 Skegness
 Archive
 By email
 More featured articles 
Did you know ...
Dosan Ahn Chang Ho Memorial Interchange
 ... that construction of the Dosan
Ahn Chang Ho Memorial
Interchange (pictured) in Los Angeles
in the 1950s displaced an entire
neighborhood primarily inhabited by
people of color?
forcing Congress to evacuate.
In the United States,
the Democratic Party wins control of
the Senate, with victories
in regular and special
Senate elections in Georgia.
Saudi Arabia reopens its border
with Qatar, ending a three-year
diplomatic crisis.
Ongoing: 
Indian farmers' protest
Tigray conflict
Recent deaths: 
Colin Bell
Albert Roux
Elena Santiago
Elmira Minita Gordon
Kay Ullrich
Bob Brett
 Nominate an article
On this day
January 7: Christmas (Eastern
Christianity; Julian calendar); Victory over
Genocide Day in Cambodia (1979)

 ... that Australian and Greek troops

under Lieutenant Colonel Ian Ross
Campbell held off a force of over 1,000
German paratroops on Crete for ten
days?

 ... that when designing the

character Madoka Kaname, Ume
Aoki used Yuno, the protagonist of her
manga series Hidamari Sketch, as a
basis?

 ... that Elaine Van Blunk finished Jerry Rawlings

third at the 1994 Chicago Marathon, her
second marathon event?
 ... that vaccines are commonly
administered via intramuscular
injection?
 1797 – The first official Italian
tricolour was adopted by the
government of the Cispadane Republic.
 1904 – The Marconi International
Marine Communication
 ... that KAVU-TV in Victoria, Texas,
did not know their signal was being
seen on cable in Corpus Christi until
family of station employees living there
said that they had enjoyed that
morning's newscast?
 ... that arachnologist Ekaterina
Andreeva wrote the first original
monograph published in the USSR
about Central Asian spiders?
 ... that an obituary of Neil Peart said
he was "sent to Earth to
destroy drummer jokes"?
 Archive
 1993 – The Fourth Republic of
 Start a new article
 Nominate an article
Today's featured picture
Company specified CQD as
the distress signal to be used by its
operators.
 1939 – The French
physicist Marguerite
Perey identified francium, the last
element first discovered in nature,
rather than by synthesis.
 1978 – An article entitled "Iran and
Red and Black Colonization" was
published in the
newspaper Ettela'at attacking Ruhollah
Khomeini, then in exile in Iraq.
Ghana was inaugurated with Jerry
Rawlings (pictured), the country's
former military ruler, as president.
Anna Murray Vail (b. 1863)
Helena Válková (b. 1951)
Caster Semenya (b. 1991)
More anniversaries: 
January 6
January 7
January 8
 Archive
 By email
 List of days of the year
Millard
Fillmore (January 
7, 1800 –
March 8, 1874)
was the
13th president of
the United States,
succeeding to the
presidency in
July 1850 upon
the death of the
incumbent Zachar
y Taylor. Born
into poverty with
little formal
education, he
became a
successful
attorney and was
elected to
the United States
House of
Representatives in
1832. Never an
advocate of
slavery, he felt
duty-bound as
president to
support
the Compromise
of 1850 that
defused a political
confrontation
between slave and
free states. He
sought election to
a full term in
1852, but was
passed over by
the Whigs in
favor of Winfield
Scott. This line
engraving of
Fillmore was
produced around
1902 by
the Department of
the
Treasury's Bureau
of Engraving and
Printing (BEP) as
part of a BEP
presentation
 album of the first
26 presidents.
Engraving
credit: Bureau of
Engraving and
Printing; restored
by Andrew Shiva
Recently
featured: 
 The
Adoration of the
Kings
 Shah
Jahan
 Yellow-
faced honeyeater
Archive
 More
featured pictures

Other areas of Wikipedia

 Community portal – Bulletin board, projects, resources and activities covering a wide range
of Wikipedia areas.

 Help desk – Ask questions about using Wikipedia.

 Local embassy – For Wikipedia-related communication in languages other than English.

 Reference desk – Serving as virtual librarians, Wikipedia volunteers tackle your questions
on a wide range of subjects.

 Site news – Announcements, updates, articles and press releases on Wikipedia and the
Wikimedia Foundation.

 Village pump – For discussions about Wikipedia itself, including areas for technical issues
and policies.

Wikipedia's sister projects

Wikipedia is hosted by the Wikimedia Foundation, a non-profit organization that also hosts a range
of other projects:

 
Commons
Free media repository
 
MediaWiki
Wiki software development

 
Meta-Wiki
Wikimedia project coordination

 
Wikibooks
Free textbooks and manuals

 
Wikidata
Free knowledge base

 
Wikinews
Free-content news

 
Wikiquote
Collection of quotations

 
Wikisource
Free-content library

 
Wikispecies
Directory of species

 
Wikiversity
Free learning resources
 
Wikivoyage
Free travel guide

 
Wiktionary
Dictionary and thesaurus

Wikipedia languages
This Wikipedia is written in English. Many other Wikipedias are available; some of the largest are
listed below.

 1,000,000+ articles
o ‫العربية‬
o Deutsch
o Español
o Françai