Hedgehogs are omnivores. Wild hedgehogs eat nuts, reptiles, crickets, insects, mice, eggs, small snakes and so on. In the wild, they mainly rely on various invertebrates and small vertebrates, as well as grass roots, fruits, melons and other plants for a living.
Family feeding can be prepared by yourself, with meat residue, grain and by-products, vegetables and so on in proportion. In addition, caterpillars, beetles, snails, earthworms and other small animals and fruits can also be fed. Hedgehog is Nocturnal Animals. It can be fed with feed and water around the evening.
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Life habits of hedgehogs
Hedgehogs have strong adaptability and low requirements for the environment. But hedgehogs have the habit of being quiet and afraid of light. They don't sleep during the day and come out at night. The inner nest room is a nest covered with hay, pine leaves or straw. The outer nest room is an activity place, including mounds or mountains, flowers and shrubs. In order to shade the sun in summer and keep warm in winter. Hedgehogs are heterogeneous animals. Because they can't stably regulate their body temperature to keep it at the same level, hedgehogs hibernate in winter.
Hedgehogs are active at night and mainly feed on insects and worms. They can eat 200 grams of insects in one night, so killing pests is good for agriculture. Unlike porcupines, hedgehogs don't lose their spines. Hedgehogs are generally resistant to a variety of poisons, but not pesticides. Sometimes it is poisoned by eating insects killed by pesticides by mistake, and sometimes it is run over by a high-speed car because of slow movement. The main natural enemies of hedgehogs are carnivores such as mink, owl and fox.
When it finds some odorous plants in the environment, it will chew them up and spit them on its own thorns, so as to keep the smell of the local environment and prevent them from being found by natural enemies, and it can also make its thorns contaminated with some poison to resist the enemies who attack it.
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