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A hedgehog is a spiny mammal of the subfamily Erinaceinae, in the eulipotyphlan family Erinaceidae. There are 17 species of hedgehog in five genera found throughout parts of Europe, Asia, and Africa, and in New Zealand by introduction. There are no hedgehogs native to Australia and no living species native to the Americas.
European hedgehog (Erinaceus europaeus) The order Insectivora (from Latin insectum "insect" and vorare "to eat") is a now-abandoned biological grouping within the class of mammals . Some species have now been moved out, leaving the remaining ones in the order Eulipotyphla within the larger clade Laurasiatheria , which makes up one of the basal ...
Eulipotyphla (/ ˌ j uː l ɪ p oʊ ˈ t ɪ f l ə /, from eu-+ Lipotyphla; sometimes called true insectivores [1]) is an order of mammals comprising the Erinaceidae (hedgehogs and gymnures); Solenodonstidae (solenodons); Talpidae (moles, shrew-like moles and desmans); and Soricidae (true shrews) families.
Feeding. In the wild, hedgehogs are primarily insectivorous, though they'll eat lots of other things, including vegetables, fruits, and even other animal proteins.
Hedgehogs all have spines on their backs, while gymnures have fur. No erinaceids have population estimates, but the Hainan gymnure and Dinagat gymnure are categorized as endangered species . The twenty-four extant species of Erinaceidae are divided into two subfamilies: Erinaceinae , containing sixteen hedgehog species in five genera , and ...
The result was a compact but extremely lux mansion for a wide variety of garden-friendly animals, from insectivore hedgehogs on the ground floor to pollinators and pollinator-attracting plants in ...
Traditionally hedgehogs have been found to hibernate between November and mid-March in a winter nest, or hibernaculum, made from dry leaves and grass.
Size range: 13 cm (5 in) long, plus 2 cm (1 in) tail (European hedgehog) to 30 cm (12 in) long, plus 5 cm (2 in) tail (Northern white-breasted hedgehog) [7] Habitats: Shrubland, grassland, and forest [8] Diets: Insects and other invertebrates, eggs, small vertebrates, carrion, and fruit [7] Hemiechinus (long-eared hedgehog) Fitzinger, 1866