The #European #hedgehog, #Erinaceus #europaeus is native to parts of southern/ central #Europe, Scandinavia, and northern Russia. It lives solitarily in overlapping #territories and protects itself from #predators by #curlingup, which requires complex muscular coordination.
K. Schütte et al. (2024) identified #ectoparasites of 498 specimens. #Ixodes #ricinus and I. #canisuga were the most abundant #ticks.

© #StefanFWirth #Berlin 2025

Ref
https://doi.org/10.1186/s13071-023-06081-9

#Photos
© S.F. Wirth

Hadgepoggle strokey time

#asmr #hedgehogs #Erinaceus #ukgardenwildlife

Trying out some adversarial inputs to image classifiers.

Both iNaturalist and Apple Photos were fooled and thought this photo contains a Hedgehog #Erinaceus however it is actually a plane tree seed pod sitting on grass.

I’ve also found the iOS 16 Info button wildly inaccurate, which is a concern if you’re relying on it to identify a friendly vs dangerous critter.