Hedgehog

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Hedgehog
The Hedgehog
The Hedgehog Revisited
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Random Joke
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Finish with a Song

Hedgehog

The name for a baby hedgehog is a hoglet.

Hedgies have poor eyesight, but excellent senses of smell and hearing.

Each hedgie has around 5,000 spines — each of which lasts about a year.

There are 17 different species of hedgehog.

The most common domesticated hedgehog is the African pygmy hedgehog.

European hedgehogs hibernate throughout winter.

It is illegal to own a hedgehog in Pennsylvania.

Hedgehogs are not affected by adder venom.

Hedgehogs are lactose intolerant.

The collective noun is "an array of hedgehogs."

A hedgehog can run over six feet per second.

“my one regret.”

The hedgehog said

“Is purchasing that

Waterbed”

Hedgehog

Our little native porcupine

You’re name suggests you are porcine.

An explosion in a needle store

A hedge hopping tiny spiky boar

You’re little mousy face

In pain it’s encased

To hold you I would love

Pain too much I’d need a glove

You hide in leaves and sleep when cold

Beneath the colours red and gold

Until new life springs forth again

Little hedgehog in ball remain

When you finally thaw out

You’ll twitch and use your nosey snout

Rid my garden of all the pests.

Slugs and snails you will digest

So you are my garden ally

You clear my grass and keep no tally

No pay requested no fee or receipt

I’ll leave you food, my friend petite

Shakespeare gave a nod to hedgehogs in “The Tempest” and “Midsummer Night’s Dream,” calling them “hedgepigs” and “urchins.”

Why did the hedgehog cross the road?

To see his flat mate ! (sorry)

Erinaceus europaeus - Latin name for the European Hedgehog

trypanophobia - Fear of Needles

Finish with a Song

Couldn't find one about Hedgehogs !!....so here's Needles and Pins by The Searchers