Hedgehog
Hedgehog: Erinaceus europaeus
Distribution: widespread, from Britain and rest of Europe, except the far north, across to Russia. Absent from most Scottish islands. Introduced to New Zealand.
Hedgehog
PHYSICAL CHARACTERISTICS:
Hedgehogs are among the most familiar small mammals in Europe. They are distinguished by their thick coat of spines and ability to curl up into a ball when threatened.
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Hedgehog
Related Category: Vertebrate Zoology
Old World insectivorous mammal of the family Erinaceidae, related to moles and shrews. The spiny hedgehogs are found in Africa and Eurasia, except SE Asia. They have rounded bodies up to 13 in.
Hedgehog
The hedgehog is a small, noisy mammal whose hair is modified into stiff, spiky spines on the upper part of its body. Large birds of prey (like owls), foxes and badgers are the only enemies of hedgehogs.
hedgehog Hibernating, nocturnal old world mammal related to the mole and the shrew. It eats eggs and insects, smaller animals, including rats and snakes.
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Fast Facts
Type: Mammal Diet: Carnivore Size: Head and body, 5 to 12 in (13 to 30 cm); Tail, 1 to 2 in (3 to 5 cm) Weight: 14 to 39 oz (397 to 1,106 g) Size relative to a tea cup: ...
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Hedgehogs are named after their pig-like habit of rooting through the undergrowth for food. They are quite noisy and can often be heard snuffling and grunting during their activities.
Hedgehog quills are not barbed or poisonous. However, hedgehogs will apply a foamy saliva to their quills.
Hedgehogs, as a group, are the most successful and widespread modern survivors of this very ancient lineage. Spiny armor is the main reason for their survival.
Hedgehogs are solitary and nocturnal animals. Although currently popular in the pet trade, this lifestyle makes them a poor choice for a pet.
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The Children's Zoo is home to our white-bellied hedgehog.
Hedgehog tenrecs are found mostly in the dry forests, scrub, cultivated areas, dry coastal regions, and semideserts of Madagascar.
Hedgehog tenrecs are nocturnal.
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Hedgehogs make a very quiet, small friend and are not aggressive as long as you hold them regularly, making them a great choice for adults and older children. They virtually fit in the palm of your hand! ...
Hedgehogs are not related to hogs. They are an insectivore.
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The Hedgehog is a mammal and it can grow to the size of six to nine inches long. The average lifespan of hedgehog is ten years and it reaches sexual maturity between the ages of 1 and 2.
The hedgehog is solitary except during breeding season. However, when several hedgehogs are in an area, some sort of pecking order does seem to fall into place. They make a variety of snuffling and snorting vocalizations and also clack their teeth.
The hedgehog hibernates in winter. It feeds as much as possible during the fall, and in October it builds an extra-thick nest in which to spend the winter. It prefers to build its nest in woodpiles, compost piles, and haystacks.
South African Hedgehog
Atelerix frontalis
The South African Hedgehog (Atelerix frontalis) is a strange looking mammal which inhabits semi-arid areas of southern Africa.
Chisos Mountains Hedgehog Cactus (Echinocereus chisoensis var. chisoensis) ...
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West European Hedgehog
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Hedgehogs (but not gymnures) are covered with sharp spines. Many species of hedgehogs can roll up into a ball, hiding all vulnerable areas of the body under the protective spines. Gymnures lack spines but when threatened, produce a foul smell.
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the hedgehog with its dense thorn-dress is a rather ancient mammal. Although hidden it lives, however, its sight is familiar for everyone. it admitted...
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Hedgehogs curl up into a ball when threatened, which makes their spikes point outwards so that they are difficult to pick up or bite. They are mainly nocturnal, or active at night, and sleep for most of the day.
Hedgehog
Hedgehogs are small mammals that can roll into a prickly ball.
Mole
Moles are almost-blind, burrowing mammals.
INSECTIVORA
hedgehogs, tenrecs, shrews, & moles
AFRICAN HEDGEHOG
MADAGASCAR TENREC ...
hedgehog butterfly (Prognathodes dichrous)
high hat (Equetus acuminatus)
hippo tang (Paracanthurus hepatus)
hogfish (Bodianus loxozonus)
honey damsel (Pomacentrus armillatus)
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In size and appearance it bears a considerable resemblance to the hedgehog, its upper surface being covered over with strong spines directed backwards, and on the back inwards, so as to cross each other on the middle line.
Echinocereus engelmannii " Hedgehog Cactus (budding)
Encelia farinosa Torrey & A. Gray " Brittlebush, Incienso (some)
Ephedra nevadensis " Ephedra, Mormon Tea
Eriogonum fasciculatum var. polifolium " California Buckwheat
Eriogonum inflatum var.
Because of predators ( rats, hedgehogs, stoats, gulls, hawks, cats, dogs,) 4 wheel drive vehicles , wave action during storms , picnickers close to nests preventing incubation, very few fledge .
The eastern long-beaked echidna looks somewhat like a hedgehog with its spine-covered body, but its long, tubular, down-curved snout makes it highly distinctive (4).
They are relatives of the Hedgehog and shrew, but spend their life underground, digging deep and long tunnels. Doing so they regularly through up the unwanted sand: the typical mole hills which could ruin your entire garden.
In the wild, caracals will eat guinea fowl, desert partridges, hedgehogs, rodents, mongoose, duikers, dik-diks, mountain reedbuck, fawns of impala, bush-buck and kudu.
The balloonfish, Diodon holocanthus (Linnaeus, 1758), aka balloon porcupinefish, blotched porcupine fish, blotched porcupine, brown porcupine fish, fine-spotted porcupinefish, freckled porcupinefish, freckled porcupinefish, hedgehog fish, ...
The moorhen's territorial insistence was again demonstrated rather more amusingly one day last summer when I happened to look out of the window to see a hedgehog being escorted out of the area by one of the moorhens following at a distance of some ...
(The name comes from their resemblance to hedgehogs, hedgehog being one meaning of the word "urchin"). Their shell, which biologists call the test, is globular in shape, and covered with spines.
Insectivora - shrews, moles, hedgehogs
Most of the insectivores eat only insects. There are over 350 species of insectivores. They are usually very small animals that use hearing and smell more than sight to find prey.
Common names for this fish include balloonfish, balloon porcupinefish, blotched porcupinefish, brown porcupinefish, freckled porcupinefish, hedgehog fish, and spiny puffer.
Porcupines are the third largest rodent, after the capybara, and beaver, and are not to be confused with hedgehogs which are Erinaceomorphs. Most porcupines are about 25-36 inches (60-90 cm) long, with an 8-10 inch (20-25 cm) long tail.
Also known as:
Porc-epic, Hedgehog, Quillpig, Quiller
Sexual Dimorphism:
Males are heavier than females.
Their diet comprises small mammals, such as voles, shrews, mice, rats, hedgehogs, birds up to thrush size and amphibians.
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*** The spines on its body can be erected and its arms and legs withdrawn, as a hedgehog does.
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Some mammal teeth from the Paleocene of France show characters of both bats and insectivores (the group including the hedgehogs, shrews and moles of today).
British Wildlife - our British Wildlife section includes many animals that live on the British Isles, including: Atlantic Puffins, Badgers, Deer, Hedgehogs, Mice, Stoats, Weasels and many more! ...
Tim Maret, on cannibalism and kinship in the caddisfly Ptilostomis postica. The second is a Mammalian Species Account for the Lesser Hedgehog Tenrec (Echinops telfairi) with Dr. Suzanne Strait at Marshall.
The supposed true "freshwater seahorse" called Hippocampus aimei was not a real species, but a name sometimes used for individuals of Barbour's seahorse and Hedgehog seahorse.
In a cladogram of the different mammal orders, humans (primates) are closely related to orders such as Chiroptera (bats), and Insectivora (shrews, moles, hedgehogs).
 See also: Shrew, Rabbit, Tenrecs, Marsupial, Elephant
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