I think that's because they are sniffing for bugs? As opposed to this picture, where she has to keep her head high so the baby doesn't just drag on the ground.
It was only a couple of years ago that I learned hedgehogs run wild in Britain. I'm 54. No idea where I thought they came from. Spontaneous generation in American pet shops?
I used to have a couple of hedgehogs as pets when I was younger and when I got my own place I decided to just let them run free in my apartment. It was so amazing to be chilling on the couch, watching TV and then a hedgehog scurries past.
I'm not generally for invasive species, but when I see huge murmurations of starlings this time of year I have a hard time being mad at them... I think I'd feel the same way if hedgehogs were introduced in the US.
Hedgehogs belong to the order Eulipotyphla, which includes shrews and moles, while rodents are in the order Rodentia and are characterized by their perpetually growing incisors.
I've never seen a hedgehog walk like that. They always walk with their snout to the ground, like a dog sniffing a trail.
I think that's because they are sniffing for bugs? As opposed to this picture, where she has to keep her head high so the baby doesn't just drag on the ground.
Right?! I can't stop staring.
It was only a couple of years ago that I learned hedgehogs run wild in Britain. I'm 54. No idea where I thought they came from. Spontaneous generation in American pet shops?
Well. TIL.
We got these lil guys scurrying around our backyards
In return you have Opossums though :D
North America has the porcupine, also.
They're adorable too!
You just keep learning about hedgehogs! At this rate you'll be a bonafide expert by 60!
I have one living somewhere around the corner of my building here in Sweden. Though the population is shrinking sadly. They're very cute.
Not a shitpost at all.
Hoggin’ ain’t easy
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I used to have a couple of hedgehogs as pets when I was younger and when I got my own place I decided to just let them run free in my apartment. It was so amazing to be chilling on the couch, watching TV and then a hedgehog scurries past.
I'm not generally for invasive species, but when I see huge murmurations of starlings this time of year I have a hard time being mad at them... I think I'd feel the same way if hedgehogs were introduced in the US.
This is the ugliest one I have ever seen.
be nice. theres a rodent on the other side of that photo
Are they rodent though?
Hedgehogs belong to the order Eulipotyphla, which includes shrews and moles, while rodents are in the order Rodentia and are characterized by their perpetually growing incisors.
Funny because I would have called a mole a rodent.
Fun fact: Healthy rodent teeth are yellow. White teeth are a sign of malnutricion
I know, just from pictures of beavers.