Business updates
Field research 2023 in the making
Upon visiting our website and looking through the projects, a new one that’s popped up a few months ago is […]
Promote your (breeding)business, resue or non-profit!
At The Hedgehog Program we are very keen on supporting other businesses: breeders, rescues and non-profits in their goals to […]
Start of a new season!
We are officially announcing the start of a new season for The Hedgehog Program and with that, a lot of […]
Science
Do animals have conciousness?
For years, scientists and animal rights enthusiasts alike have been fascinated by the potential capacity of animals to process the […]
Two new species of ‘hairy hedgehogs’ discovered in the Philippines
Photo: Podogymnura intermedia (FMNH 186805, holotype), adult male. Photographed 28 July 2005 by D. S. Balete. The first two months […]
Hedgehog spines could protect athletes from concussions
Taking inspiration from nature to achieve innovative solutions to human problems -a practice also known as biomimicry- has all manner […]
16 year old hedgehog found in Denmark
‘Thorvald’ is the name of the oldest found hedgehog in the world. Researchers of the Danish Hedgehog Project researched over […]
Hedgehogs
A hedgehog’s masturbation
Photo: © Lizl van Vreden Masturbating hedgehogs? Now that might be a sticky spikey situation one would think. But it […]
European hedgehogs are wreaking havoc in New Zealand
If you find yourself in New Zealand, you might see a hedgehog snuffling around… But it won’t be a native […]
Prickly situation on the runway: Air New Zealand flight delayed
The captain of flight NZ675 which just landed from Auckland, New Zealand, had spotted a hedgehog on the runway of […]
Function of the Jacobson’s organ in hedgehogs
If you have read into the eyesight of hedgehogs (which will be another educative article at a later time) you […]
Tenrecs
The sound of quills!
Weird, wonderfull and true! The Lowland-Streaked Tenrec (Hemicentetes semispinosus) is the only mammal with sounding quills. They are one of […]
Quills, hairs and.. quiars?
Tenrecs, much like other mammals, have a skin covered in hairs and sometimes quills. But did you know there’s another […]
Large-eared tenrec added to the Wiki
A new species page has been added to our wiki! Within the Tenrecidae family, the subfamily of the Geogalinae and […]
Madagascar’s mammalian evolution under threat
International scientists have concluded that it would take three million years to recover the number of species that went extinct […]
Biology 101
Biology 101: Anthropomorphism
If you’ve worked with animals for a while, you probably have heard of the term and might know the meaning […]
Biology 101: What is convergent evolution?
And how is convergent evolution relevant to hedgehogs and tenrecs? These are two regularly asked questions whenever i explain that […]
