hedgehogs in English

noun
1
a small nocturnal Old World mammal with a spiny coat and short legs, able to roll itself into a ball for defense.
Animals co-habiting in the woods include field mice, grey squirrels, hedgehogs and three roe deer.

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1. 8 Hedgehogs are inactive in winter.

2. Hedgehogs are like prickly balls.

3. Snails are a tasty treat for hedgehogs.

4. Formal models just do better than either foxes or hedgehogs.

5. Gypsies and some other country folk eat hedgehogs baked in clay.

6. The two hedgehogs stood on the bank and watched as the vole paddled away.

7. Some of the hedgehogs embellish their self-protection with an upward jerking movement.

8. 25 Some of the hedgehogs embellish their self-protection with an upward jerking movement.

9. ‘Working together to imagine what hedgehogs, newts, and Blindworms look like, the children can then

10. Some animals, such as hedgehogs, exist in a state of suspended animation during the winter.

11. 10 Some animals, such as hedgehogs, exist in a state of suspended animation during the winter.

12. 22 A plentiful supply of food is particularly important for hedgehogs after hibernation and prior to breeding.

13. In addition, hedgehogs are one of four known mammalian groups with mutations that protect against another snake venom, α-neurotoxin.

14. What Is a Baculum? Many mammals, including cats, dogs, bats, gorillas, and hedgehogs, have a bone in their penises called a Baculum

15. 25 I opted for bright summertime colours but for autumn you might have brown hedgehogs shuffling through leaves of russet and gold.

16. Hedgehogs share distant ancestry with shrews (family Soricidae), with gymnures possibly being the intermediate link, and they have changed little over the last 15 million years.

17. Brambles provide an important source of nectar for Brimstone and Speckled Wood butterflies; fruits for Song Thrushes and Yellowhammers; and hiding places for Hedgehogs and Dormice

18. Pigs, honey badgers, mongooses, and hedgehogs all have mutations in the nicotinic acetylcholine receptor that prevent the snake venom α-neurotoxin from binding, though those mutations developed separately and independently.

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21. ‘The waders, Curlews, plovers and lapwing were there long before the hedgehogs were introduced.’ ‘The large numbers of birds in the area, including nationally important numbers of golden plover, curlew, dunlin, merlin and twite, make it a Site of Special Scientific Interest.’

22. Alice thought she had never seen such a curious croquet- ground in her life; it was all ridges and furrows; the balls were live hedgehogs, the mallets live flamingoes, and the soldiers had to double themselves up and to stand on their hands and feet, to make the arches.

23. However, a fact that is of secondary importance for the purposes of the present proceedings, but is of interest in that it completes the description of the fauna protected by the biotope orders, is that the annex to the biotope orders includes other animals, apart from birds, such as insectivores (hedgehogs), alipeds, rodents and carnivores.