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The European hedgehog has a generalised body structure with unspecialised limb girdles. [5] It appears brownish with most of its body covered by up to 6000 brown and white spines. [ 6 ] The length of head and body is ~160 mm (6 in) at weaning, increasing to 260 mm (10 in) or more in large adults.
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]
Hedgehog bones have been found in the pellets of the Eurasian eagle owl. [15] In Britain, the main predator is the European badger. European hedgehog populations in the United Kingdom are lower in areas with many badgers, [16] and hedgehog rescue societies will not release hedgehogs into known badger territories. [17]
Young hedgehog found on the track outside the pest exclusion fence of the Karori Wildlife Sanctuary. The European hedgehog (Erinaceus europaeus) was brought to New Zealand by British colonists in the 1870s as a way to deal with insect pests that had hitched a ride on crops the colonists had brought from their homeland for farming. Long regarded ...
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.
The hedgehog tick is dark brown in color, but appears light grey or white when engorged. It can be identified by the humped tarsae of its first pair of legs. The adult female has a characteristic heart- or hexagon-shaped scutum; the male's scutum covers the entire body segment (idiosoma), as is typical for hard ticks.
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).
For a long time these two species were considered to be one. The northern white-breasted hedgehog of Eastern Europe and Russia was formerly recognized as a subspecies of the southern white-breasted hedgehog but newer investigations see both as different species. The southern white-breasted hedgehog and European hedgehog can hybridize.