You would never think that a hedgehog has so thin and tiny legs compared to their body. It is super cute, funny and adorable.

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Hedgies are amazing. Their hearing is excellent, rivalled only by their sense of smell.

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The Hedgehog Song, commonly performed by Nanny Ogg in Terry Pratchett’s Discworld universe, is in fact accurate.

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Hedgehogs don’t eat corn, even though they are omnivores.

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When a hedgehog encounters a new smell that they want to remember, they generate a foam-like substance and apply the smell to their sides.

It is a learning process hedgehog-style.

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Hedgehog spikes are blood controlled, by which I mean that they are only dangerous if a hedgehog feels threatened and then hedgehogs pump blood into the tissue underneath to point them outwards and they start to breathe like a bellow to generate a needling effect.