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The Hedghogz - English
URL: http://www.hedghogz.co.uk/

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Information on the European hedgehog, found in the UK and Western Europe including how to care for injured hedgehogs.

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Echinosorex gymnura (Moon Rat, Gymnure): Narrative - English
URL: http://animaldiversity.ummz.umich.edu/accounts/echinosorex/e._gymnura$narrative.

The diet if the gymnure is varied, though there is some debate about what food items are most important. It seems that the main component of the diet is terrestrial and aquatic invertebrates such as earthworms, insects, spiders, scorpions, centipedes, millipedes, crabs and molluscs.

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Hedgehog Enthusiast - English
URL: http://www.geocities.com/thewebhog/index.htm

Webhog offers info on hedgehog care, shelter, food, and fun.

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Hemiechinus auritus (Long-Eared Desert Hedgehog) - English
URL: http://animaldiversity.ummz.umich.edu/accounts/hemiechinus/h._auritus$narrative.

Liz Ballenger's article about the long-eared desert hedgehog for Animal Diversity Web: taxonomy, range, physical characteristics, behavior, plus two skull photos.

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Erinaceus europaeus (Hedgehog): Narrative - English
URL: http://animaldiversity.ummz.umich.edu/accounts/erinaceus/e._europaeus$narrative.

The hedgehog, though it belongs to the Order Insectivora, is quite the omnivore. Erinaceus europaeus has been known to eat a wide range of invertebrates but prefers earthworms, slugs and snails.

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Atelerix albiventris (African Pygmy Hedgehog): Narrative - English
URL: http://animaldiversity.ummz.umich.edu/accounts/atelerix/a._albiventris$narrative

Atelerix albiventris is omnivorous butprimarily insectivorous. It feeds primarily on invertebrates such as spiders and insects, occasionally also consuming smalll amounts of plant matter or small vertebrates.

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Prickly Ball Farm Hedgehog Hospital - English
URL: http://www.hedgehog.org.uk/

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West Country Award Winning Tourist Attraction + learn all about Hedgehogs!

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The Welsh Hedgehog Hospital - English
URL: http://www.whh.org/

The Welsh Hedgehog Hospital helps hedgehogs and helps you to help hedgehogs.

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Hedgehog Relatives - English
URL: http://members.tripod.com/lakeshorehhog/relatives.html

Everyone keeps telling you that hedgehogs are not related to porcupines and are not rodents, but what are they related to? Hopefully this page will help you. It is under construction at the moment and will hopefully be finished in the near future. I would love to get feedback so that I know how to make this page better for everyone, so please e-mail me at hoglets@hotmail.com. All of the headings are Order and then Family.

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Erinaceidae Family - English
URL: http://animaldiversity.ummz.umich.edu/chordata/mammalia/insectivora/erinaceidae.

Members of this family, the hedgehogs and gymnures, are perhaps the most similar of all extant mammals to the very earliest mammals. Erinaceid fossils, however, date back only to the Eocene, while their extinct ancestors, the Adapisoricidae, are known from the Cretaceous. The family is made up of 17 species grouped in 7 genera, and can be found in Africa, Eurasia, southeastern Asia and Borneo. Hedgehogs and gymnures range in size from that of a mouse to a small rabbit.

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Eurasian Insectivores and Tree Shrews - Status Survey and Conservation Action Plan, 1995: Erinaceidae - English
URL: http://members.vienna.at/shrew/itsesAP95-erinaceidae.html

IUCN/SSC Insectivore, Tree Shrew and Elephant Shrew Specialist Group (ITSES).

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INSECTIVORA; ERINACEIDAE: Gymnures and Hedgehogs - English
URL: http://www.press.jhu.edu/books/walker/insectivora.erinaceidae.html

This family of 9 genera and 20 species is found in Africa, Europe, and Asia as far north as the limit of deciduous forest and on Tioman Island, Sumatra, Java, Borneo, and Mindanao Island in the Philippines. The sequence of genera presented here follows that of Corbet (1988a), who recognized two distinctive subfamilies: the Galericinae (sometimes called Echinosoricinae), comprising the gymnures or moonrats; and the Erinaceinae, with the hedgehogs.

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