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The European hedgehog (Erinaceus europaeus), also known as the West European hedgehog or common hedgehog, is a hedgehog species native to Europe from Iberia and Italy northwards into Scandinavia and westwards into the British Isles. [3] It is a generally common and widely distributed species that can survive across a wide range of habitat types ...
Erinaceus is a genus of hedgehog from the family of Erinaceidae. There are four main species of Erinaceus. The range is all across Europe, throughout the Middle East, parts of Russia, and extending to northern China and Korea. The European hedgehog (Erinaceus europaeus) has been introduced to New Zealand. [2] [3]
Erinaceus europaeus, the European hedgehog or common hedgehog, a mammal species found in northern and western Europe Euonymus europaeus , the spindle, European spindle or common spindle, a deciduous shrub or small tree species
Hedgehog bones have been found in the pellets of the Eurasian eagle owl. [14] In Britain, the main predator is the European badger. European hedgehog populations in the United Kingdom are lower in areas with many badgers, [15] and hedgehog rescue societies will not release hedgehogs into known badger territories. [16]
The Czech hedgehog is an antitank defense that, for Americans and Russians alike, evokes images of World War II. Moscow has a monument of Czech hedgehogs to mark the farthest that Nazi soldiers ...
Clockwise from upper left: Hispaniolan solenodon (Solenodon paradoxus), European hedgehog (Erinaceus europaeus), European mole (Talpa europaea), and ornate shrew (Sorex ornatus) Eulipotyphla is an order of placental mammals which includes hedgehogs, gymnures, moles, shrew moles, desmans, solenodons, and shrews. Members of this order are called ...
Erinaceidae / ˌ ɛr ɪ n ə ˈ s iː ɪ d iː / is a family in the order Eulipotyphla, consisting of the hedgehogs and moonrats.Until recently, it was assigned to the order Erinaceomorpha, which has been subsumed with the paraphyletic Soricomorpha into Eulipotyphla.
Fossil skull of D. koenigswaldi Deinogalerix in scale with a modern European hedgehog. Artwork by Mauricio Antón. D. koenigswaldi ' s skull was 21 centimetres (8.3 in) long and the entire body measured 60 centimetres (24 in). It occupied the same ecological niche as dogs and cats today. It shared this niche with the enormous barn owl Tyto ...