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Consider the Hedgehog
- dang 7y agoHedgehogs from 2015: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10768913 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10768913 I feel like there have been other major hedgehog threads, but they seem to be hiding.
- blunte 7y agoSome things I've observed about hedgehogs firsthand: - they're practically blind, and led by their nose (smelling food) - they will happily eat two entire bowls of wet cat food, or one bowl of dry cat food - they will park next to a large cat and eat, side by side... or if there's only own bowl, they will walk up and push the cat out of their way (cat responses to this are really funny)
- ggm 7y agoShout out for tiggywinkles animal hospital which I visited the same day as a drive to Bletchley from Heathrow: great visitor centre, doing sterling work rescuing injured hedgehogs. My partner who lived in the uk for two years never saw one, was delightfully entertained by this visit. https://www.sttiggywinkles.org.uk/ https://www.sttiggywinkles.org.uk/
- macintux 7y agoI’ve had two African hedgehogs as pets. One extremely social (for a hedgehog, anyway) and one very much not. The latter was mostly neglected by her previous owner. Fascinating animals, wish I could read the full piece.
- fourthark 7y agoReader mode worked for me (FF/iOS)
- anfractuosity 7y agoI didn't see images in the article, but there's some really nice illuminated manuscripts, of hedgehogs collecting fruit on their spines: https://blogs.bl.uk/digitisedmanuscripts/2014/10/how-to-be-a-hedgehog.html https://blogs.bl.uk/digitisedmanuscripts/2014/10/how-to-be-a... There's also a couple of really nice animated stories featuring hedgehogs: Hedgehog in the Fog - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oW0jvJC2rvM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oW0jvJC2rvM Hedgehog's Home - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wXCeZEwmZEk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wXCeZEwmZEk