Promote your (breeding)business, rescue or non-profit!
At The Hedgehog Program we are very keen on supporting other businesses: breeders, rescues and non-profits in their goals to
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Author: Judith Duinkerken
Prickly situation on the runway: Air New Zealand flight delayed
The captain of flight NZ675 which just landed from Auckland, New Zealand, had spotted a hedgehog on the runway of
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Function of the Jacobson’s organ in hedgehogs
If you have read into the eyesight of hedgehogs (which will be another educative article at a later time) you
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Two new species of ‘hairy hedgehogs’ discovered in the Philippines
Photo: Podogymnura intermedia (FMNH 186805, holotype), adult male. Photographed 28 July 2005 by D. S. Balete. The first two months
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Madagascar’s mammalian evolution under threat
International scientists have concluded that it would take three million years to recover the number of species that went extinct
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16 year old hedgehog found in Denmark
‘Thorvald’ is the name of the oldest found hedgehog in the world. Researchers of the Danish Hedgehog Project researched over
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Tenrec species
When you think of tenrecs, you most likely can only think of 5 species. But those five are only the
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Research suggests social mammals live longer
In the research called ‘Correlated evolution of social organization and lifespan in mammals‘, researchers suggest that mammals that are naturally
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Start of a new season!
We are officially announcing the start of a new season for The Hedgehog Program and with that, a lot of
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Hedgehog species
How many hedgehog species do you know? A lot of people know two, maybe more if they are members of
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