There are a lot of myths and tall tales about the little prickly hedgehog. But the world does not stand still and we all know that hedgehogs do not eat apples, and that they have indigestion of the stomach from milk, although they like it very much, but this is not all the interesting facts about this cute animal.
Hedgehogs are actually very tough and completely non-company guys who are used to living alone. Even the female's own offspring are brought up by the female herders herself, maybe up to 5 pieces in one litter, and in case of emergency the hedgehogs just kill their own children. They first appeared on our planet about 15 million years ago, gradually they evolved into 17 species, and they are in no way related to the porcupines, despite their common similarity.
The needles have taken on their usual shape, and now one hedgehog has up to 10,000 needles and they shed like cats, but only once every three years. Some hedgehogs have poisonous thorns. The teeth of these tiny predators fall out by the old age, and their old age begins at 5 years, and the maximum age to which the hedgehog lives is seven years.
They have 18 pairs of sharp teeth and do not hunt mice. The fact is that the mouse is too fast for the hedgehog, and they mainly feed on insects, which are mainly hunted at night. Before winter, the animal needs to become seriously fat because during the winter hibernation it will lose up to 40% of its weight, they have to spend up to 128 days in sleepy condition.
Therefore, in summer, in pursuit of prey, they are able to overcome up to 2 kilometers in a day's journey. They constantly get from ticks, and there are usually more of them on the body of hedgehogs than on any forest animal. For that they are not afraid of poisonous snakes, the animals are simply colossal immunity to almost all poisons, they are not even taken by arsenic.
The hedgehogs are a bit blinded and are guided strictly by colors, but for that they have a great sense of smell and hearing. They also know how to swim, though they do not like to do it very much, and also they do not climb trees badly and communicate with each other by whistling.