Hedgehogs
- Species
- 18 species
- Diet
- Omnivorous
- Length
- Up to 10 in
- Classification
- Mammalia > Eulipotyphla > Erinaceidae
- Life Span
- Up to 10 years
- Conservation Status
- Various
- Habitat
- Hedgerows and bushes
- Hedgehog are an animal known for their ability to hide away or defend themselves, doing so by rolling into a ball to use the spines covering its body as a defence mechanism.
- Draw a hedgehog looking for food in the bushes and long grass.
- Places (Map of European Hedgehog)
- Europe, Asia, and Africa, and New Zealand
- It got its name because it lives in the hedgerows of Britain, and has a pig like snout.
- Their spines are made from keretin and are hollow. They don't easily detach from their body, and are not poisonous.
- Hedgehogs have a habit called "anointing" when the lick new scents, pasting them on their spines, perhaps to help camouflage it in that location.
- Although we think of them as insectivores, only eating insects, they in fact eat many things, and can be called omnivorous.
