Hc115+Hedgehog

Hanna C. Hedgehog
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__Hedgehog Background and Diet __ Hedgehogs live in Europe, Asia, Africa, and some in New Zealand. Hedgehogs can be one of 15 different species. Their diet contains insects, worms, centipedes, snakes mice frog and snakes. Hedgehogs can live through a snake bite, because the protein erinacin is in the animals muscular system. Though some viper snake bites may cause a hedgehog to die because they get the protein in small amounts. The name hedgehog comes from them admitting a pig like grunt when they are hunting.

__From young to old __ Most litters consist of 3-4 newborns and they only live with there mothers for about 4-7 weeks. When they are in the wild. they can survive up to 4-7 years and the oldest hedgehog has lived up to 16 years. If the hedgehogs nest is disturbed, the families will then usually move or in some cases the mothers will eat there young.

__Climate __ Hedgehogs usually sleep during the day and hunt during the night for there food. They can sleep through heat and drought. When they are sleeping. they will curl into a ball but not attack because it be be not preparing to shoot with the spikes out. Hedgehog live at the very top of trees and that is why you don't see them that often. Did you know that hedgehogs love to go in the water and they lov e to swim to get there food.

__Spikes __ When hedgehogs are attacked, they will curl up in to a big spiky ball and get prepared to shoot there quills out which is called quivering. The spikes are not very easily removed unless they are growing there spikes from baby to adult or shooting them at a predator. Also they can lose spikes when they are going through extreme sickness or stress. There spikes are just hallow hairs made stiff with keratin. The hedgehogs are naturally born blue not brown.

__Diseases/Cures __ <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: 1.5;">Hedgehog meat for awhile was considered to be used for medicinal purposes and thought to be used to cure rheumatism and arthritis. Some of the diseases hedgehogs get and humans get are cancer, fatty <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: 1.5;">liver disease, and cardiovascular disease. The fatty liver disease is most commonly <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: 1.5;"> caused by a bad diet for hedgehogs and for humans. But the most common hedgehog death is caused by them hitting cars them or owls eating them.The hedgehog was used in wedding ceremonies to help relieve the married couple of <range type="comment" id="493780112_8"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: 1.5;"> there sins.

<span style="font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif; font-size: 20px; line-height: 29.25px;">__McDonald's__ __<span style="font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif; font-size: 150%; line-height: 1.5;">+Hedgehog __ In 2006, McDonald's changed there Flurry cup shape to be more hedgehog-friendly. Before they did this hedgehogs would get there heads stuck in the container when trying to lick the remaining food from it. And when they couldn't get there head out they would starve to death. Some even walked around with the tube on there head. The good part is that most of them would only be stuck for a couple hours. McDonald's even had to<range type="comment" id="493902288_5"> change the McNugget container for them.

__Links__

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hedgehog http://animals.nationalgeographic.com/animals/mammals/hedgehog/ http://phys.org/news76402215.html http://www.cutestpaw.com/images/baby-hedgehog/ http://hdwallpapersyouneed.com/