The common name is the hedgehog. The SCIENTIFIC name is Erinaceus albiventris. It lives in wooded, cultivated land, desert, and tropical rain forests.Their geographic range is in Western Africa from Somalia to Tanzania.The classroom habitat is wood chips, water, and a food bowl. The food in the classroom is dry cat food. In the wild, it eats worms, insects, snakes, birds, and many other things. The Great Eagle Owl eats the hedgehog.
At birth the hedgehog weighs 0.43 to 0.63 ounces. The life span of the hedgehog is six to eight years in the wild and ten years in captivity.The hedgehog lives alone. The mother nurses her young for about thirty to thirty three days and then takes the young foraging for food.
The hedgehog can smell something two inches underground. Hedgehogs are eighteen to twenty five ounces when grown up. The hedgehog has 6,000 spines depending on age. Hedgehogs hibernate when the weather falls below 60 degrees F. The hedgehog lives in weather 75 to 85 degrees.
This hedgehog has at least 6,000 spines.