Hedgehog – the most famous owner of thorns. At the slightest danger, it turns into a ball, trying to prick the person who poses a danger. Often a hedgehog can be found in his backyard or in the garden, where he conveniently arranged his home. Although the hedgehog often neighbors with a person, we know little about him. Selected interesting facts will help to better understand who is next to you.
To survive the hibernation of a hedgehog, you must weigh at least 500 grams.
The hedgehogs never dig themselves holes, they use existing voids under the faces and bushes.
If the hedgehog does not find a home before the temperature drops to +6 C °, it can fall asleep, and when the temperature drops to minus, the hedgehog will freeze to death.
The temperature of the sheltered dwelling even in -20 ° C does not fall below zero.
When a hedgehog is drowsy, metabolic processes in his body slow down. The body temperature drops to 0 C °, and the heart rate drops from 170 beats per minute to 5.
The hedgehog awakening phase after hibernation can last several hours.
Over the winter hedgehog loses up to 40% of its weight. Therefore, waking up, he immediately goes in search of food.
Hedgehogs are very poorly seen, they are able to sense their sense of hearing and sense of smell in the space.
For a day, a hedgehog can travel a distance of up to 2 km.
The territory of one hedgehog can occupy 20 hectares.
The male hedgehog never participates in the upbringing of its offspring.
The hedgehogs sense their prey at a distance of several meters.
The hedgehog is born with soft needles, hidden under the skin. The first needles begin to appear one hour after birth.
At the 3rd week of life, the hedgehog already has all the milk teeth.
There is a myth that hedgehogs like milk, in fact from cow’s milk the hedgehog can die, they do not tolerate lactose. For feeding small hedgehogs, cat milk is more suitable, which can be bought at any veterinary pharmacy.
Approximately in 3,5 weeks the hedgehogs leave the nest and go to the trail behind the hedgehog. Go for their mother makes an instinct.
Feeling a strong smell, the hedgehog always begins to cover his needles intensively with saliva, why this happens to scientists has not yet been clarified.
Hedgehogs have about 2000 needles.
Hedgehogs can move even in the swamp.
Earlier there was an opinion that hedgehogs especially climb into the chicken coop and eat eggs. This is not so, getting into the chicken coop, the hedgehog can eat only a broken or broken egg. The teeth of the animal are not intended for cracking the eggshell.
