European Hedgehog
Erinaceus europaeus · Mammal
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A round, insect-eating mammal of about a kilo covered in up to 6,000 brown and white spines, found from Ireland and Iberia to Scandinavia and north-west Russia. It lives on woodland edges, in meadows, pastures, fields and orchards and in village gardens, hunting earthworms, slugs, beetles and caterpillars by night. It rolls into a ball when alarmed and hibernates in a winter nest; badgers, foxes and eagle-owls eat it all the same.
- Danger
- Harmless
- How it is met
- Alone, by night
- Size
- Tiny
- In winter
- Sleeps through winter
Where it lives
Gives
Sources
- Colin Roberts, Erinaceus europaeus (western European hedgehog). Animal Diversity Web, University of Michigan Museum of Zoology, 2011.
- European hedgehog. Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia, 2026.
- Erinaceus europaeus. Wikipédia, l'encyclopédie libre, 2026.
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