Hedgehogs: Curious Little Mammals

Hedgehogs, talk about what they are and what they do. First, hedgehog is a mammal native to Europe, Asia and Africa. National Geographic (N.D.) stated that there are about 15 hedgehogs in these listed countries. Hedgehogs are also introduced in non-traditional areas like New Zealand. Hedgehogs were named after their own feeding method. These animals use hedges and other bushes to find small animals - insects, worms, crickets, snails, mice, frogs, snakes - which make up most of their food.

Hedgehog is a member of the mammal of the family Erinaceidae. They are one of the most primitive mammals still alive, there is little change for the past 15 million years. Through research on fossils, scientists have discovered some of the first hedgehog ancestors, including Litoestes, Leipsanoles, Oncocherus, Cedrocherus and Deinogalerix. Fossil bone fossil analysis and anatomical comparison help to tie these primitive animals to modern hedgehogs, but some of their habits and characteristics remain a mystery of science.

Hedgehogs are any of the thorny mammals of the eulipotphlan family Erinaceidae subfamily Erinaceinae. In Europe, parts of Asia, Africa and New Zealand have discovered 17 hedgehogs in 5 genera. There are no native wild species in Australia native to the hedgehog or American continent (extinct Amphechinus belongs to North America). Hedgehogs share a distant line with sh sh (family lizards) where gymnastics may be intermediate links and have not changed much for the past 15 million years. Like many of the earliest mammals, they adapt to the nighttime lifestyle. The hedgehog's thorny protection resembles an unrelated porcupine, they are rodents and ammunition is single