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- Title: Hedgehog
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- Description: The west European hedgehog is one of about 17 hedgehog species worldwide and unmistakable as Britain’s only spiny mammal. Their highly specialised coat contains around 6,000 creamy-brown spines and hangs around their body in a loose-ish ‘skirt’, concealing greyish fur on their underside, surprisingly long legs and a short tail. As distant relatives of shrews, hedgehogs have changed little in the past 15 million years. They are generalists that can be found across a wide range of rural and urban habitats, although they are absent from moors, coniferous plantations, wetlands and some islands.
- Owner: Julie Hunt
- Copyright: Julie Hunt @ Wildlife Reference Photos
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- Date Created: 2009-09-25 00:00:00